Turn it Off

"I want to go completely offline. I'm so sick of the Internet."
"I miss the old days when you could just disconnect and leave the past behind."
"Anyone else just get hit with an overwhelming need to unplug?"
"I feel like I'm just jumping from screen to screen, barely remembering the days."

Are you ready to break up with the internet?

This book is a short, step by step guide to taking your life offline: starting small, then going all the way. Do as few or as many of the steps as you want. It's NOT many long chapters about why social media and phones and AI are all bad. It's the actual steps to move significant parts of your life offline.

Fifty steps to go from normal to offline.
Tech skeptic Megan Wobus is the author of the Substack A Life Outside. This book is brain-made, with no AI used in any part.

A concise, no-nonsense guide on how to disentangle your life from the internet, starting with relatively easy steps all the way to living fully offline with things such as printed maps, iPods, books and hopefully more real human interaction. 

—Talli (NetGalley)

If you're feeling stuck in an online loop, perhaps this could be a gentle push toward awareness and change.

—Jamie (Amazon)

I would recommend for anyone who has a spare hour and wants to become more screen free.

—Lucy (Goodreads)

This book felt like a quiet nudge from a friend saying "hey, let's go outside." I loved how stripped-down it was - barely any fluff, just clear steps that somehow mirrored what it preached. The simplicity itself was grounding. I'm not about to disappear into the woods, but even trying a few tips shifted my habits. If anything, I wish some sections went a bit deeper, but maybe that's the point - you close the book and start living.

—Lisa (Amazon)

Where there's a will, there's a way, and the hard truth of this book explains the way…

—William (Amazon)