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This week, The Atlantic printed its record of the 136 most vital American novels of the previous century. “Our purpose was to single out these classics that stand the take a look at of time, but in addition to make the case for the sudden, the unfairly forgotten, and the just lately printed works that already really feel indelible,” my colleagues wrote of their introduction. “We aimed for comprehensiveness, rigor, and open-mindedness. Serendipity, too: We hoped to duplicate that specific pleasure of a buddy urgent a e-book into your hand and saying, ‘You must learn this; you’ll find it irresistible.’”
That final line jogged my memory of the serendipity that’s at all times at play after we decide up a e-book. Occurring upon the precise phrases on the proper second, and in the precise way of thinking, isn’t simple; when all these items fall into place, it may possibly really feel like a fragile victory, virtually magic. At the moment’s studying record explores how our consideration spans, attitudes, and schooling have an effect on the way in which we learn—and the right way to deliver your self nearer to the studying expertise you may want.
On Studying
Why Some Individuals Change into Lifelong Readers
By Joe Pinsker
So much rides on how dad and mom current the exercise to their youngsters.
The best way to Present Children the Pleasure of Studying
By Natalie Wexler
In her 28 years of instructing, Deloris Fowler had seen instructional reforms come and go. Then one in all them shocked her.
Seven Books That Will Make You Put Down Your Telephone
By Bekah Waalkes
These titles self-consciously goal to seize their reader’s consideration.
Nonetheless Curious?
Different Diversions
P.S.
In 2016, James Hamblin explored how black textual content written on a white background—in different phrases, the usual type of a e-book—might not really be one of the best ways for the human mind to soak up info. That format “persists as we speak out of custom, not due to some innate tendency of the human mind to course of info on this approach,” he wrote.
— Isabel
