I would recommend Alan Jacob's work in this space: * The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9859899-the-pleasu

I would recommend Alan Jacob's work in this space: * The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9859899-the-pleasures-of-reading-in-an-age-of-distraction https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9859899-the-pleasures-of...) * Breaking Bread with the Dead (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608945/breaking-bread-with-the-dead-by-alan-jacobs/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608945/breaking-bre...) I would also recommend some of Matthew Crawford's work on the so-called "attention economy."