What did people do before smartphones to pass the time when you were bored?

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We had something like e-readers and they didn't need recharging as they were made out of dead trees. But each one held just one book, so you had to take a bunch of them to the bathroom with you.

Readers Digest contained multiple books in one volume

Right. There were also Ace Doubles, but you had to be good at reading upside down if you wanted to use both halves.

This reminds me of the time I checked out all the Dune books from the library, they were all hardbacks and the stack was nearly 2 feet high. The librarian was like, "You're not going to read all that before they're due" She was right but she let me check them all out anyway.