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Skim Reading Is the New Normal

Wolf's most-shared essay: what society loses when skimming becomes our default way of reading.

Maryanne Wolf

Aug 25, 2018

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Wolf’s most-shared essay, named among The Guardian’s best of 2018 and published as Reader, Come Home launched.

When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age.
— Maryanne Wolf, The Guardian

Read the full essay at The Guardian.

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