{"id":341,"date":"2007-11-26T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T15:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/11\/26\/reading-distopia-cross-threads\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T15:39:29","slug":"reading-distopia-cross-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/11\/26\/reading-distopia-cross-threads\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Distopia Cross-Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always fun to twine together threads about the future of reading.The introduction of Kindle has occurred at about the same time as the announcement of yet another study on the reading habits, or lack thereof, of US citizens. So, for fun, compare:
\n1) The Right to Read, by Richard Stallman
\nhttp:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/right-to-read.html<\/a>
\n“For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college\u2014when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
\nThis put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her\u2014but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong\u2014something that only pirates would do.”
\n2) The Future of Reading: A play in Six Acts
\nhttp:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2007\/11\/19\/the-future-of-reading<\/a>
\n3) Unboxing Amazon’s Kindle, By Peter Glaskowsky
\nhttp:\/\/www.webware.com\/8301-1_109-9822443-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware<\/a>
\n4) Google on “nea reading 2007” for links to and about the NEA study on reading rates. For example, a NY Times article by Motoko Rich, Nov. 19, 2007, starts:
\n“…Americans \u2014 particularly young Americans \u2014 appear to be reading less for fun, and as that happens, their reading test scores are declining. At the same time, performance in other academic disciplines like math and science is dipping for students whose access to books is limited, and employers are rating workers deficient in basic writing skills.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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