
You Don't Need A Smartphone
A practical guide to downgrading your phone and upgrading your life
$33.36
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2027
Summary
‘When I owned a smartphone, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a choice.’
August Lamm knows how it feels to be glued to a screen. In her late twenties, burnt out as a social media influencer, she sold her smartphone and switched to a dumb phone. Immediately, her mental health improved, her attention span increased, and her curiosity returned. Since then, she has made it her mission to help others do the same.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800964471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800964471 |
| Author: | August Lamm |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Monoray |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 204mm |

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Critics Review
The essential guide to putting down your phone - and coming back to real life. – Catherine Price, #1 NYT bestselling author of How to Break Up With Your Phone
Everyone should read this book! August’s provocative and persuasive words should be mandatory reading. Powerful, unsettling and thought provoking. – Annabel Streets, author of The Walking Cure
For anyone who thinks the path back to a slower, more embodied, and fully present existence has been irretrievably lost - here is the map. Practical, humane, and quietly revolutionary. – Rhik Samadder
August Lamm
August Lamm has built a full-time career teaching workshops and online classes in crosshatching. She has a degree in art history and has worked as an art handler, art writer, and art podcaster. August shares her work online with her enthusiastic, 166,000-strong audience on Instagram.
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