Growing reluctance to engage with books is endangering democracy and science. Deep reading boosts the human capacity for abstract and analytical thinking, protecting us from the corrosive effects of bias, prejudice and conspiracy theories.
Miha Kovač
is a professor at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies at the University of Ljubljana. He was editorial director at Slovene publishing houses DZS and Mladinska knjiga, and the Slovene edition of National Geographic Magazine. He is the author of ‘Read to Breathe’, which has been translated into seven languages, and co-author of ‘Manifesto on Higher Level Reading’. His latest book, ‘Is this a Book?’, co-authored with Angus Phillips, was published in the Elements series, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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