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Presumably - I have often wondered how much more we all read and write now compared to people 50yr ago (even if a lot of it is in Slack / email / SMS etc.) It d
by blacksmith_tb 5y ago
Presumably - I have often wondered how much more we all read and write now compared to people 50yr ago (even if a lot of it is in Slack / email / SMS etc.) It does appear that reading books for pleasure is gradually trending down in the US[1] unfortunately, but in terms of raw words read or written, I would think that we're doing a lot more online than we used to do off...
1: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/01/book-reading-2016/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/01/book-reading...
- dredmorbius 5y agoThere's a substantial difference between reading short takes and longer, complex texts. Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book illustrates this in the multiple levels of reading it describes. Critical and synoptic reading of complex works is a developed skill.