Why You Stopped Reading (and what to do about it) | with Jared Henderson

Video from Jared Henderson

Why You Stopped Reading (and what to do about it) | with Jared Henderson

"What has gone wrong with reading? This is one of the main questions on everybody's lips today, and very few people have written about it as thoroughly as Jared Henderson (‪@_jared‬). So I had a chat with him about the modern reading crisis, and what we can do about it." from the video introduction

00:00 What is the reading crisis? 07:05 How is this over-simplified? 00:25:12 The gap between non-readers and hyper-readers 00:34:05 Byung-Chul Han 00:43:55 What's Happening with Our Attention Spans? 00:51:42 Enjoying Reading 01:08:51 Performative Readers 01:16:27 The Effects of the Internet on Reading 01:23:34 Favourite Books 01:28:34 What's the Point of Fiction

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