Even after Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year-long run in 2009, series host LeVar Burton wasnt ready to drop its mission of promoting reading habits and literacy. He brought the series back as an iPad app two years ago, to much acclaim, but Burton still hasnt been satisfied with what its been able to accomplish. 97 percent […]
Ive come to rely on different services to help power me through the day: Foursquare to find new coffee shops, Pocket for my reading habits and Instagram and Flickr for photo sharing. As great as these apps are, though, I find myself wishing they could do more — especially when it comes to how they […]
In short, humans are losing the capacity to understand complex sentences and our attention spans are rapidly shrinking. The Internet, and how it has changed our reading habits, is making it difficult for people, particularly young people, to read classic works of literature because our brains are trained to bob and weave from one piece […]
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