Pew found print books remain the most widely used format among U.S. adults
Our brains may have evolved to demand the friction that only paper provides.
Reading & Books
Strong writing is shaped by strong reading. Here you’ll find articles on reading habits, books, literary culture, and the ideas, authors, and traditions that influence how people think, write, and communicate.
What you notice about sentences after a lifetime of reading
After about forty years of reading, I stopped seeing sentences as containers. I stopped asking what they were carrying and started asking how they were built.
What serious readers do differently — and why it makes them better writers
Hand a manuscript back to a writer with a single note in the margin — "you've been reading a good deal of Cormac McCarthy lately, haven't you?
Why re-reading a book is not a waste of time
A certain kind of paperback gives a person away: the spine cracked in three places, the cover soft at the corners, a coffee ring on page forty.
World Reading Habits in 2021 [Infographic]
We read a lot more books in 2020 because of lockdowns. Did we read as much in 2021? That's what we set about to find out in our 2021 edition of world reading habits.
World Reading Habits in 2020 [Infographic]
2020 has been a strange year… for obvious reasons. Most of us spent more time at home.