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When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

It's no secret New Zealand is facing a literacy crisis. Education Minister Erica Stanford has voiced serious concerns about ...

The days of book reports and research projects are long over for most of us. There’s no required reading list for a grown-up.

Sarah J. Maas, Freida McFadden and Emily Henry –– can these popular authors join forces and save the day against a dangerous decline in reading for enjoyment? Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted ...

Reading for pleasure in the U.S. fell 40% over two decades, the study found. Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past ...

Allowing video to crowd out reading means trading selecting and constructing for patience and willingness to follow direction. It’s a poor bargain in the age of AI.