Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, (Paperback)

from jonerthon

I burned through this in less than a week in January, and maybe I should have spent more time with it, because the author is advocating for the importance of deeper, critical reading of the content before us. I still got a bit of insight into how a brain scientist would diagnose our modern inform...

from caimanjosh

Reader, Come Home, deals with the changes that are being wrought in our brains amidst all of the new ways of reading and processing information that the Internet/Smartphone age has brought. Although there are some interesting thoughts in a few places, this was a slow-paced and difficult read. It ...

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In her 2018 book “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World,” Maryanne Wolf cites a number of scientific studies indicating that while people may be reading more each day on their smartphones and computers than ever before, their ability to comprehend what they're reading has decrea...

from rsairs

I would have thought this book would have a great cheering section at LibraryThing. Prowling around online reviews I found that most of the critical ones seemed to either shoot wide of the author's point or actually establish it while defying it. For example, one critical review took the author t...

from rsairs

I would have thought this book would have a great cheering section at LibraryThing. Prowling around online reviews I found that most of the critical ones seemed to either shoot wide of the author's point or actually establish it while defying it. For example, one critical review took the author t...