“The transition from a culture of the written word to a culture of images hinders what experts refer to as ‘deep literacy’. Digital leisure spares us from the slow, introspective solitude of #reading #TheGreatestBooks. […] Only #books of considerable substance imbue us with a detailed understanding of various subjects while enabling a dialogue with the past. […] That’s precisely what the great books offer. And ‘great books’ often happens to coincide with, well, ‘hefty books’. In return, they demand solitude, immobility, and no company other than combinations of letters arranged in horizontal lines, carefully stacked into paragraphs. Are we still capable of the level of concentration required for deep reading? […] We exaggerate the artistic merits of television series to mask a shameful and growing ineptitude for engaging with substantial literary works.”

https://www.elmundo.es/opinion/2023/05/23/646b7e2efc6c835a5d8b45ae.html

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