As a child I often waited for my dad to return from the vineyards, and followed him to his workshop filled with saws, welders' masks, and nails sorted by size.
Reading books, in a non-ideal school, is often set for homework-a certain number of pages must be read and marked off on a book mark by the following day.
In contrast, it's quite common for personal computers to be booted or re-booted (re-started) and it's rather rare for them not to be stopped and re-started at least once a day.