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This creates a different relationship with reading. It stops being a form of pleasurable immersion in another world and becomes more like dashing around a busy supermarket to grab what you need and then get out again.

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

I know plenty of literate adults who can decode words, but who also appear to be lousy readers.

John Warner • We Need to Make More Readers

To them, the brain and intelligence was all about language.

Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence

Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.

Annie Murphy Paul • Opinion | Your Brain on Fiction (Published 2012)

When the point of reading is, as it was for Peter of Ravenna, remembering, you approach a text very differently than most of us do today.

Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Foreman feared “an Internet-dependent population is being drained of its ‘inner repertory of dense cultural heritage’ by outsourcing all information and connection to a vast web that spreads us wide and thin and is accessed by the touch of a button.”

Algorithms and the Homogenization of Taste

Fluency illusions result from our tendency to mistake fluency with a text for mastery of its content.

Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick

if you make people read quickly, they are much less likely to grapple with complex or challenging material. They start to prefer simplistic statements.

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

But if you then test them on what they read, you’ll discover that the faster you make them go, the less they will understand. More speed means less comprehension.