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Is the Age of Reading Over?
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July 23, 2026
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30:16Now PlayingPeople may be reading now more than ever (emails, texts, socialmedia posts). But fewer and fewer people are reading actual books. The Atlantic’s staff writer Rose Horowitch, who wrote the August cover story, “The End of Reading Is Here () ,” explains what might be lost in a “postliterate” ageand it’s a lot more than books.
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