It was very hard for me not to skim this article but I forced myself to read every sentence and below is virtually all of its information content. Rest of the a

It was very hard for me not to skim this article but I forced myself to read every sentence and below is virtually all of its information content. Rest of the article just keeps repeating these same points over and over. - Reading ability required development of new brain circuits about 6000 years ago - This circuit adapts to new environment and mediums, currently digital media - Fast and multi-tasked reading has advantage for large volume information but comes at cost of ability for "deep reading" - College students now actively avoid the classic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries because of "cognitive impatience" - Anne Mangen did experiment to have 50% student read a story on kindle and 50% on print material. Later group showed superior comprehension, re-construction and retention - Many readers now use an F or Z pattern when reading in which they sample the first line and then word-spot through the rest of the text - Physicality of print material enables association with space and time allowing readers for re-examination aka “technology of recurrence” - Negative effects of screen reading can appear as early as fourth and fifth grade impacting comprehension and empathy