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Escape the screen: Reclaim your life with a dumb phone.
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You Don't Need A Smartphone

A practical guide to downgrading your phone and upgrading your life

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  • Hardcover

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    12 January 2027

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Summary

‘The essential guide to putting down your phone’ - Catherine Price

‘Everyone should read this book!’ - Annabel Streets

‘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 hea…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781800964471
ISBN-10:1800964471
Author:August Lamm
Publisher:Octopus Publishing Group
Imprint:Monoray
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:12 January 2027
Weight:240g
Dimensions:20mm x 126mm x 200mm
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You Don't Need A Smartphone by August Lamm - ISBN: 9781800964471
126 × 200 mm
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A4
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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
You Don’t Need A Smartphone is a radical polemic that demands action. Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully argued, Lamm forces us to consider the impact of tech addiction and champions us to make change, of any scale, while we still can. – Moya Lothian-McLean

About The Author

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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