Alokal Vinos: We can't help but use skimming. And that's a piece of what happened to deep reading right there. The publishers, they realize, well, we can't read that much deeply so that things get shorter,. I don't mean just novels. Even our scientific articles are becoming shorter and less devoted to the historical argumentation. It threatens a culture of dialogue that is critical for us to be able to think clearly.
Maryanne Wolf is a professor at UCLA and the renowned author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" and "Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World." She says deep reading makes you a better thinker, communicator, and citizen. But what happens if you lose the ability to read slowly, patiently, and critically? Is there anything you can do to get it back?
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