This has challenged some of my beliefs about digital reading. I’m torn about my transformation to digital reading and am watchful for the downsides and pitfalls.

🔗 The Deep Space of Digital Reading (Paul La Farge / nautil.us)

In A History of Reading, the Canadian novelist and essayist Alberto Manguel describes a remarkable transformation of human consciousness, which took place around the 10th century A.D.: the advent of silent reading. Human beings have been reading for thousands of years, but in antiquity, the normal thing was to read aloud

The predecessor to the ebook reader ☺️