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Maryanne Wolf is a literacy researcher, and she strongly promotes the valuable skill of reading.  But not the skim-reading on our phones and screens, she means actual physical books.  In a recent article, she addresses the complex activities going on in our brains when we read books.  “The medium of print advantages slower, more attention-requiring processes.  The digital medium advantages fast processes and multitasking, suited to skimming information’s daily bombardments.” 

We bounce around and think we’re going fast, but miss out a lot.

It’s a magical outcome from slow effort to connection and integration, which just doesn’t happen when skimming.