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“Writer and critic Maris Kreizman calls this the “bulletpointification” of books and believes it is endemic to a tech culture that fetishizes optimization. “It seems to me that there is a fundamental discrepancy between the way readers interact with books and the way the hack-your-brain tech community does. A wide swath of the ruling class sees books as data-intake vehicles for optimizing knowledge rather than, you know, things to intellectually engage with.”

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Book:More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

Source: More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

“Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.”

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Book:Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

Source: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

“Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic and dispensable, Federman and Shirky provide the intellectual cover that allows thoughtful people to slip comfortably in the permanent state of distractedness that defines the online life.”

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Book:The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Source: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“...Montag paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud.”

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451