December 19, 2008

Reading's Next Chapter

By STEVEN G. KELLMAN

Great Books and the consensus canon breathe their last. What will take their place?

"Of making many books there is no end," declared Ecclesiastes, but an ancient bookmaker did not have to bet against Web sites, movies, TV shows, CD's, and video games. Of reading many books did a rich life once consist, before other distractions were invented. But now the practice of scrutinizing page after page in splendid, concentrated isolation has begun to seem almost as quaint as

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