"It is not a binary print versus screen. And so I ask all of us do not ever think about either or, but rather what is best for the purpose of what you're reading," he says. "I will ask everyone until we have still more knowledge about how to have our generation steeped in both."
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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