I will admit I've spent time reading books due to spending time on social media (and reading various articles on substack and blogs on my desktop computer). I'm still a person who'd rather read any news as opposed to watching it.
Seems our society is getting less literate in general when the "recommended" way to get instructions is to watch them on You Tube as opposed to reading them.
But have noticed that the local Barnes and Noble is generally very crowded so there are still readers out there.
I have to say much of this article really hits Home for me. I teach children music, which isn’t exactly reading, but I’m aware that most of them don’t read books much. In addition to music I enjoy writing fiction. But as for being an active reader, I’m a GenXer, and I’d have to say until the Internet and cell phones became widely available, Say the year 2000 or so, I was a pretty voracious reader. These days? Not so much! at least not a physical paper anyway. I mean, I read these articles, Ha ha.
I keep coming back to the why this matters beyond books. Long-form reading seems to build a kind of cognitive patience—staying with complexity, following ideas over time, resisting snap conclusions. Curious how you see that playing into these trends.
I will admit I've spent time reading books due to spending time on social media (and reading various articles on substack and blogs on my desktop computer). I'm still a person who'd rather read any news as opposed to watching it.
Seems our society is getting less literate in general when the "recommended" way to get instructions is to watch them on You Tube as opposed to reading them.
But have noticed that the local Barnes and Noble is generally very crowded so there are still readers out there.
Also a concern is not just literacy but sustained attention and comprehension.
I have to say much of this article really hits Home for me. I teach children music, which isn’t exactly reading, but I’m aware that most of them don’t read books much. In addition to music I enjoy writing fiction. But as for being an active reader, I’m a GenXer, and I’d have to say until the Internet and cell phones became widely available, Say the year 2000 or so, I was a pretty voracious reader. These days? Not so much! at least not a physical paper anyway. I mean, I read these articles, Ha ha.
I keep coming back to the why this matters beyond books. Long-form reading seems to build a kind of cognitive patience—staying with complexity, following ideas over time, resisting snap conclusions. Curious how you see that playing into these trends.