3 Comments
User's avatar
Felipe Martínez Cutillas's avatar

Funny seeing The End of Reading and The Rise of Intellectual Clout in the same list. Feels like reading is splitting into a signaling class and a doing class: the people stacking unread books for the shelf, and the shrinking group that actually finishes them. Taste is quietly moving to the second group.

Philip Teale's avatar

The End of Reading was written with an American audience in mind 🙃

Felipe Martínez Cutillas's avatar

Funny seeing The End of Reading and The Rise of Intellectual Clout in the same list. Feels like reading is splitting into a signaling class and a doing class: the people stacking unread books for the shelf, and the shrinking group that actually finishes them. Taste is quietly moving to the second group.