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The depth of the resulting addiction can be estimated from the disruption of daily life caused and from the degree of [[Awesomeness Withdrawal|withdrawal]] symptoms once the reader finishes and has to follow the update schedule from then on. More sensible people time themselves and read up a little at a time. These are the people that can eat only one potato chip.
Firefox extensions like [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205023812/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925/ Autopager] can help by automatically adding the next page as you scroll, so you don't have to click on links. For some of them, you need to be quite technically minded, though.
The site [http://www.archivebinge.net/ Archive Binge] lets you subscribe to a webcomic's archive via an RSS feed at a rate you choose, allowing you to binge at your own pace.
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* Facebook's newly introduced "Friend X and Friend Y" friendship review pages can have this effect.
* [http://gettyimages.com/ Getty Images] has been around since 1993 providing stock and editorial images, illustrations, and video. That might not seen like much, but they've also acquired older photography collections and digitized ''them''. [http://bit.ly/acA81i Good luck closing the window].
* Darn you, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101105136/http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/ Damnyouautocorrect.com]!
* When going through a language program similar to ''Rosetta Stone'' you may end up going through a whole language without getting any sleep for several nights, then forgetting most of it.
* The ''[http://www.customerssuck.com/board/ Customers Suck!]'' forums. Especially Gravekeeper's posts.
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