Reading Insecurity: Has The Internet Really Killed Our Ability To Deal With Long Things Like Books?

“Maybe we’ve sensed that we rely on physical cues to ground ourselves in complex arguments, and that we get more of those from books than from flickering screens. … And after centuries of vaunting the solidity of written language, there’s a kind of whiplash in signing on and watching our literary output swoosh by. … Yet the Web giveth, even as it taketh away.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1qgdh6J

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