Welcome to the first reading of the semester, "Twilight of the Books" by Caleb Crain. Below this post, you can comment or ask questions about the article. Just make sure to include your name in the post if you post anonymously.
I look forward to hearing what you think about Crain's article!
This articles goes into a lot of statistics but they don't really ask the question on why reading if on the declined. The immediate newer to that question for me is the accessibility of different media. Nowadays books are competing with movies, the internet, video games and musics, all of which are just as mobile as books are.
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ReplyDeleteAt first, I thought the article was somewhat old considering the comparison between TV and literature. TV is long gone and is replaced by the internet now. I like how the author mentioned the study where reading goes by smooth on the brain while watching TV or playing video games are more of a task. I have always shared the same concern with the author that reading is on the demise. This is apparent from the studies conducted by the N.E.A. However, I do think that the availability of interned worldwide will bring it back or even spread reading more than before. -------- End of comment -------- Happy Snow Day on "Twilight of the Books" Faris Alageel
ReplyDeleteI thought the article was supposed to be about the importance of reading, yet the author did not do a very good job of arguing why reading is important and why people should read more. In fact, instead of answering his question of what life would be like if people stopped reading, he goes on to talk about the benefits of watching television. I love books and wish that people would read more, but I do not think they are going to start doing that from reading this article.
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I thought the article did an alright job of showing how reading has declined, but the author didnt go into much detail on the benifits of reading and why its important. In a way I felt he used too much data to prove his point, and did not use enough examples of lack of employment, lower wages, and fewer opportunities due to lack of reading skills.
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I think that this article has a lot of great points and I like how he can back up his points with facts but the one think that I didn't like or didn't do a good job in was the way he argued his point on why reading is important. I like that he used a lot of facts and information though.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this article's main point, worries about the decline of reading habits. However, I think this article fails to show the decline of reading and how serious this problem; the article just lists some results of studying and statistics. Also, I don't know what the purpose of introducing the brain research to this article is. It seems like there's no relationship between them.
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