‘The decline in reading cuts across age groups, gender and education levels’

The End of Reading Is Here

The Age of Reading Isn’t Over

Not quite 2,300 years ago, but more like 17 years ago, the story goes, the executives of Barnes & Noble asked their engineers to build a device that could hold every book ever printed. The company, which had spent a century filling oak shelves one store at a time, envisioned a library small enough to slip into a coat pocket yet vast enough to safeguard the sum total of a reader’s collection. These files were stored on a bank of humming servers i…

‘The decline in reading cuts across age groups, gender and education levels’

‘The end of reading is here’Rose Horowitch at The Atlantic“Americans, once members of a proudly literate society, read much less than they used to,” says Rose Horowitch. Even “demographics that traditionally read the most — retirees, women and college graduates — have seen a collapse,” and the “books that people do read are simpler than they used to be.” People are “losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension.” America “isn’t illiterate. …

The Decline In Reading Cuts Across Age Groups Gender and Education Levels

Shafkat Anowar / The Dallas Morning News / Getty Images Americans, once members of a proudly literate society, read much less than they used to, says Rose Horowitch. Even demographics that traditionally read the most  retirees, women and college graduates have seen a collapse, and the books that people do read are simpler than they used to be. People are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension. America isn’t illiterate. It’s postliter…

"America, in other words, isn't illiterate. It's postliterate."

"The library of the mind falls into disrepair." Rose Horowitch surveys the current decline of reading. (SLTheAtlantic; archived)The advent of reading and writing transformed society. It altered people's consciousness and politics, along with the intellectual feats they were capable of. The decline of reading will bring about changes of the same magnitude. It will affect our innermost thoughts, our society's politics and culture, and how we tell …

The End of Reading Is Here. “The decline of reading will bri...

The End of Reading Is Here. “The decline of reading will bring about changes of the same magnitude. It will affect our innermost thoughts, our society’s politics and culture, and how we tell the history of our civilization.”