‘What if the slowness of books is not a weakness but their virtue?’

‘What if the slowness of books is not a weakness but their virtue?’

‘Andrew Tate doesn’t get the point of books’Joel Halldorf at The Atlantic“Digitization” is the “latest innovation in reading,” but while the “gains in information are undeniable, the costs to attention, contemplation and reflection are no less profound,” says Joel Halldorf. Digital pages are “cluttered with distractions” and “embedded links invite readers to move on mid-sentence.” The “erosion of deep reading weakens our capacity to grasp comple…