> Perhaps this is all a sign of a fractured attention span It is not, I think. It's a sign of the overall bad quality of most books, fiction and non fiction on

> Perhaps this is all a sign of a fractured attention span It is not, I think. It's a sign of the overall bad quality of most books, fiction and non fiction ones alike. Your ability to skim through the bad ones pays off if you find one book worth reading, and read that one slowly and carefully.