How the Internet changed the way we read

most of us read continuously in a perpetual stream of incestuous words, but instead of reading novels, book reviews, or newspapers like we used to in the ancien régime, we now read text messages, social media, and bite-sized entries about our protean cultural history on Wikipedia. In the great epistemic galaxy of words, we have become both reading junkies and also professional text skimmers. By Jackson Bliss.
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