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Books, now more than ever. 📚📚📚 - In the Internet Era we've come to view reading as an essential antidote to the constant churn of debased, short-form content. Books help nurture our empathy, ability to pay attention + appetite for complexity- qualities that make us healthier, happier humans. Qualities that are severely at risk today. We get that books aren't for everyone- but many people haven't tried much outside of required school assignments. So if you're not already a reader, we urge you to find a book that sparks your interest and read a couple pages before bed every night. Notice how through this habit, the world seems to open up for you- as opposed to the tense, constricted feeling we're so often left with after scrolling. - Quote from Don Boivin’s substack: https://donboivin.substack.com/ #News #Books #Mindful #DigitalWellbeing #TuneInOnline

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The triumph of the digital seems to have also brought the triumph of the factual. As literature, as the idea of literature, suffers depreciation, it gets ever harder to make the case for imagination. And what is imagination if not the animating power of inwardness? The subjective self takes in the world and fashions meaning; art and religion are it

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Insights

Oscar Wilde with his characteristic paradoxical wisdom:

“Saints always have a past and sinners always have a future.”

Peter Cundill on the power of perspective:

“I think it may be easier to see solutions if you can distinguish between context and content. If you can place a problem within the framework of the larger universe its dimensions are... See more

As I’ve written before, the speed of technology and the hyperconnectivity of society have placed us in a “never-ending now.”Like hamsters running on a wheel, we live in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption — a merry-go-round that spins faster and faster but never goes anywhere.Even the virtues of information consumption have changed.Mo

Jean Louis • Information Nutrition

So why is reading books any better than reading tweets or wall posts? Well, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes, you need to put down your book, if only to think about what you’re reading, what you think about what you’re reading. But a book has two advantages over a tweet. First, the person who wrote it thought about it a lot more carefully. The book is... See more

William Deresiewicz • Solitude and Leadership

Reading books has always been a political action, but good gracious, are we being reminded anew of the subversive act these days, eh? Libraries, writers, books, and freedom of thought are under attack or under suspicion or even simply ignored . We are being spooned amusements that require no thought, no engagement, no heart, only our constant consu... See more

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Jean Louis • Information Nutrition

William Deresiewicz • Solitude and Leadership

Reading is one way we are reminded: stay human.