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In a recent article in the Boston Globe Mary Anne Wolf says that, "the reading brain is slowly becoming endangered – the unforeseen
consequences of the transition to a digital epoch that is affecting
every aspect of our lives, including the intellectual development of
each new reader."

Why is the "reading brain" becoming endangered? I live in the digital world, as much or more than anybody, and I don’t read any less now than when I was a college student over fifty years ago. I may even read more, because the digital world makes more texts readily available, not to mention the reading that goes into just navigating one’s path through this new world….

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