POINT OF VIEW

How Reading Is Being Reimagined

By MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM

There is no doubt that it is time for a serious conversation about reading, not least because books themselves are changing.

Google, in cooperation with several dozen research libraries worldwide, is digitizing books at the rate of 3,000 a day. The noncommercial Open Content Alliance is scanning at a more modest...

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