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Excellent Reads@sh.itjust.works · 22 days ago

The End of Reading Is Here

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The End of Reading Is Here

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Excellent Reads@sh.itjust.works · 22 days ago

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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I ain’t ruffled about it. We’ve been feverishly writing about the imminent death of reading since the invention of writing. Like we haven’t got plenty of real crises to deal with.

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