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Reading Is a Vice
What will be the fate of reading? I don’t mean the left-to-right movement of the eyes as we take in information, but the age-old practice of addressing the world by way of this inward faculty of imagination. I mean reading as a filtering of the complexities of the real through artistic narrative, reflection, and orchestration of verbal imagery.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Being a reader means cultivating a relationship with the world that, by most standards, can seem pointless and counterproductive.
Adam Kirsch • Reading Is a Vice
Now, I’m not so naive as to think that there was some lost golden age of reading. Probably at every moment in reading’s history, reading has been to a great extent the preserve of nerds and eggheads — it’s, almost by definition, what you do when you’re off on your own, when you don’t have anybody who at that moment wants to hang out with you. But... See more