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History is full of examples of a new medium that changes the way people read and think. If the vook is to be one of these era-shifting media, it’s worthwhile to look back at the impact of preceding innovations. In “The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution,” historian Roger Chartier describes the impact of the “tripling or quadrupling of book production” on French readers in the decades before the revolution and how “a new way of reading, which no longer took...
...unlike their 18th-century French counterparts, readers today face a large and growing pool of information, but I don’t see readers (if they can even be called that anymore) becoming more analytical as a result of the many recent developments in reading technology. If anything, these products seem merely to make us read faster, less carefully, and in such a way that we can no longer absorb anything not presented in an easily digestible form such as video clips or embedded MP3 files. After all, is a vook something we “read?...
...sense that they enable us to condense a book’s main points into a small, palatable package, innovations like the vook essentially encourage us not to read at all, for the act of reading is a sustaining intellectual process that requires scrutiny, time, and—above all else—thought. And what kind of thought is required in to “read” something like a vook...
...mission to flush out Sikh separatists who had amassed weapons in the Golden Temple in Amritsar in northern India. While the operation was considered a success, almost 500 Sikh civilians visiting the temple that day were killed by the Indian army, though unofficial reports suggest numbers much higher. (Read TIME's coverage of the riots' aftermath...
...Read TIME's recent cover story, "What Women Want...