reading 
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SOURCE: TIME
5/9/2023
There's Never Been a Right Way to Read
by Adrian Johns
The intellectual work and play of reading has always competed with other demands on attention; only recently have science and commerce converged to sell remedies for distraction and proprietary methods for reading.
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SOURCE: Salon
4/22/19
Resistance can't be tweeted: Social and political change is built on reading
by Jim Sleeper
What's the value of liberal education? Without intellectual exploration, we'll never make a better world.
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SOURCE: WaPo
1-9-18
Trump isn’t big on reading. Teddy Roosevelt consumed whole books before breakfast.
“It’s worse than you can imagine. Trump won’t read anything — not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing.”
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SOURCE: LiveScience
5-28-13
Medieval readers had eclectic tastes
Nowadays, people bounce effortlessly from reading news to blogs to email. And it turns out the reading habits of people in medieval times weren't so different, a new book suggests.People in 14th-century London consumed a variety of texts, often linked together in bound volumes. Arthur Bahr, a literature professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores these habits in his new book "Fragments and Assemblages" (University of Chicago Press, 2013).
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