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The End of Reading Is Here (Archived version here ) I do my best to retain a hardy scepticism of inflamed narratives around the Death of Reading, but god – the idea of mass literacy turning out to just be a historical blip (sandwiched in between the age of orality and the age of non-stop digital entertainment) is genuinely terrifying to me. So much of what I value in the human is what reading and…