I'm not even particularly convinced that academia is consistent with such a notion of "deep literacy." On day 1 of grad school in the humanities/social sciences

I'm not even particularly convinced that academia is consistent with such a notion of "deep literacy." On day 1 of grad school in the humanities/social sciences, one is handed a reading list of far more books than one can ever hope to "deep" read, and one very quickly learns to skim them and get the meat of it. Advice for beginning academics is filled with blog posts with titles like "how to gut a book." This continues even post tenure. There are dozens to hundreds of important works on anything about which one might write; unless one wishes to publish one paper per five years, one continues one's grad school habit of reading at breakneck speed and with a sense of panic about the possibility that more works on one's subject are actually being published at the very moment that one is reading the previous literature.