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happen to the book as we've known it.

The information revolution will touch every fact ofcomposition.

The Gutenberg revolution. as we now know it

and social transformations probably much more dramatic than thosebrought about by Gutenberg

the question of what future there is for the arts of reading is a real one.

Not by brain. by heart; the expression is vital.

of part-perception against background distraction renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and concentration

solitude (独处的状态) goes tothe very heart of our notion of literacy

but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed.

educated teenagers can no longer read without an accompanying noise (music) in the background or a television screen flickering (闪烁) at the corner of their field of perception.

that surround the image of the classic act of reading.

But my own worry today is fess that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence.

These figures from the Department of Education are sufficient: 27 million Americans cannot read at all.