Just a moment...
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Saved by Graham Ormiston
Just a moment...
Saved by Graham Ormiston
“I’ve been finding it harder and harder to concentrate on words, sentences, paragraphs,” laments Hugh McGuire, the founder of the public domain audiobook service LibriVox and (at least until recently) a lifelong reader of literary fiction. “Let alone chapters. Chapters often have page after page of paragraphs.” He describes what’s shifted in the fo
... See more... See moreMany students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
…the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
The anecdote helped explain the change