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mkr  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Praise of (Offline) Slow Reading - NYTimes.com

Long-form reading might just be the last thing the Internet helped us filter. People would sit through a long, dull book in the 1950s because there wasn't much else to do. Why suffer through that when someone's written this 15,000 word account of their life in a dictatorship?