The Atlantic · Rose Horowitch ·
How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books
twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world's written works.
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