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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

The author argues that reading is alive and well in America. Millions of devoted readers support hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices.

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  • "Bu bi da shi kai shu dan, ni neng zi ji zhao dao you qu you you yong de yue du fang shi"
  • "Pleasures of reading in an age of distraction"
  • "不必大師開書單,你能自己找到有趣又有用的閱讀方式"
  • "不必大师开书单, 你能自己找到有趣又有用的阅读方式"

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  • "The author argues that reading is alive and well in America. Millions of devoted readers support hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices."@en
  • "The author argues that reading is alive and well in America. Millions of devoted readers support hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices."
  • "In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own b."@en
  • "The author argues that reading is alive and well in America. Millions of devoted readers support hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices.--Résumé de l'éditeur."

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  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Wo gai ru he yue du : bu bi da shi kai shu dan, ni neng zi ji zhao dao you qu you you yong de yue du fang shi"
  • "The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction"@en
  • "我該如何閱讀 : 不必大師開書單,你能自己找到有趣又有用的閱讀方式"
  • "Yue du de le qu"
  • "The Pleasures Of Reading In An Age Of Distraction"
  • "Wo gai ru he yue du : bu bi da shi kai shu dan, ni neng zi ji zhao dao you qu you you yong de yue du fang shi = The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction"
  • "阅读的乐趣"
  • "我该如何阅读 : 不必大师开书单, 你能自己找到有趣又有用的阅读方式 = The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction"
  • "The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction"@en
  • "The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction"

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