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‘Reading worked so well for so long not because text is magic, but because books came with built-in boundaries. They end. Pages stay still. Libraries provide quiet. These weren’t features of literacy itself but of the habitats where literacy lived. We need to rebuild those habitats for a world where meaning travels through many channels at once.’ Carlo Iacono’s essay on ‘Books and screens’: https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem (Available as a 23-minute listen for those who prefer that modality.)