Do you watch the movements of your hands as you read a printed book? Maybe not. I don’t. Perhaps that’s why I was intrigued by this video:
When all exposed the gestures are a bit odd aren’t they? What comes to mind as you watch this video?
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Tony Reinke 
To be honest – the thing I thought of was that the hands look like they are crafting something. Reading is, thereby, labor – and we should endeavor to labor well when we read. It’s more than just passively inputting information.
I thought of a man strangling a rabid giraffe.
It looks like a man trying to pick his friend’s nose! These things ought not be brethren. As the early church father Pickiest Nasus once said,
“Thou mayest pickest thy friends, Thou mayest pickest thy nose, but thou mayest not pickest thy friends nose.”
I thought I saw a few diaper changes myself…