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30 Sep 08

Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do."
Maryanne Wolf.

In her new book, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, she points out that reading is not an innate ability for humans but something we have to learn how to do, and there is no reason why different forms of literacy should not emerge as new technologies do. (BBC)