[boredemployee]

>> Books are disappearing from our culture, and so are our capacities for complex and rational thought.

are they? maybe it's a cultural thing or maybe the author's perspective is from 1st world countries. here where I live ppl can't stand reading books on digital devices (not counting tech bros in my N)

[Cthulhu_]

It's just the introduction that highlights the "reading is doomed!" narrative, the rest of the article says it's not actually so bad.

[mghackerlady]

It's not people moving to ebooks, the amount of people I know personally who are proud of never having read a book for pleasure or not having done so in a very long time is absurd. Today's high schoolers struggle to read at a 6th grade level, and don't see that as an issue since literacy is seen in a similar way to vinyl records (something archaic and pointless that a rare few still enjoy but has largely been replaced by modern technology)