How reading fiction can improve yourself and your relationship to others
Massimo Salgaro, "How reading fiction can improve yourself and your relationship to others", The Conversation, December 19th 2017 [online]
Seen on December 19th 2017, URL : https://theconversation.com/how-reading-fiction-can-improve-yourself-and-your-relationship-to-others-88830
Extract
There is a fair chance that someone in your close circle of friends and family will be using a smartphone, e-reader or tablet computer to read the latest bestseller over the holidays this year. Since the 2007 and the introduction of Kindle in 2010, such devices have changed the way that people engage with books. Most newspapers, including the 166-year-old New York Times have completed their digital transition, and some are now exclusively online. In academia, journal articles are increasingly published first in digital form, and sometimes exclusively so. But when it comes to books, the paper form has shown unexpected resilience.
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