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What's happening to reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
(In a “blink” lasting a quarter of an hour, you may be able to come to grips with Ryan Holiday’s exploration of Stoic and Buddhist philosophy, “ Stillness is the Key.”) Or consider Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, a subscription-based anthology which published, on a seasonal basis, handsome hardcover volumes containing four or five novels that had been trimmed to roughly half their original size. can generate abridgments, summaries, and other condensed editions on demand, we may even switch between versions as circumstances dictate—the way that, today, you might decide to listen to a podcast at “2x” speed, or quit a boring TV show and turn to Wikipedia to find out how it ended. Recently, I’ve been reading Tolstoy’s “ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth.” It’s full of German phrases, odd historical details, and Russian cultural nuances that I don’t understand.
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