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I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?”

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They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would “bounce” out to another site

we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking

The Italian humanist Hieronimo
Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to
intellectual laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
Others argued that cheaply printed books and broadsheets would undermine
religious authority, demean the work of scholars and scribes, and spread
sedition and debauchery.

Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.