Paper or digital? Does a new study on leisure reading finally settle the tricky question of which format is better for reading comprehension. Research Director Sunil Iyengar takes a look.| National Endowment for the Arts
Wolf (2018a) argues that for reading extended prose fiction, for instance in the form of a novel, cognitive patience (CP) is needed. This is the ability to read with focused and sustained attention and delay gratification, without multitasking or skimming over parts of the text (p. 90). CP is a broad and multifaceted concept that has to our knowledge not been operationalized or empirically examined. In her explication of its meaning, Wolf references the effortful persistence psychologist Ange...| Scientific Study of Literature
A reflection on the reading life. What formed it, what threatens it, and what remains.| carlhendrick.substack.com
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?| The New Yorker
