David L. Ulin

3.2/5

The sections about the effects of technology and e-books have been widely written about elsewhere and I did not find new insights in this essay. I would have been interesting when it was first written, but it is quite dated now.

"Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more than for us to disengage."

This essay perfectly sums up everything that has happened in the past decade, where technology of the internet came by and how the unstoppable information rush (which can be a distraction) change the way we talk, think, and read.

This book started life as an essay, and was originally subtitled: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, I loved how this book reminding me of all the little aspects of why I love books, reading and how reading a real book in a sense as the author puts it: “Act of Resistance in a landscape of distraction” I hope that in reading this book you will find your way back to the page.