Chapter 1. "I Hate Books": Words Go Digital
Chapter 2. Reading Evolves
Chapter 3. tl;dr: Readers Reshape Writing
Chapter 4. The Appeal of Words Onscreen
Chapter 5. The Web Ate My Print Button: One-Off Reading
Chapter 6. How Social is Reading?
Chapter 7. "It's Not a Book": The Physical Side of Reading
Chapter 8. Your Brain on eText
Chapter 9. Faxing Tokyo: When Cultures and Markets Meet
Chapter 10. The Future of Reading in a Digital World
Naomi S. Baron is Professor of Linguistics Emerita at American University in Washington, DC. She is the author of Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World.
"Ultimately, Words Onscreen invites us to rethink our own reading
habits. By taking careful stock of what we gain in terms of
convenience and access versus what we lose in terms of
concentration and distraction, Words Onscreen offers an overview of
reading (both digital and in print) that is both broad and deep.
Undergraduates in courses that deal with a range of aspects
involving rhetoric and technology would benefit from it.
Graduate
students and other scholars will find that it provides a solid
foundation upon which to build more theoretically rich and critical
work on digital reading."-- Joshua Welsh, Research in Online
Literacy Education
"A darkling view of what our world--and what we--will be like if
codex reading eventually surrenders to the flickering screens of
e-readers." --Kirkus Reviews
"A must-read for all Americans concerned with having future
generations skilled in critical thinking." -Nat Hentoff, The Daily
Herald
"From kindergartens to universities, schools are being pressured to
replace printed books with electronic ones. But is reading from a
screen the same as reading from a page? Naomi Baron provides the
most thoroughgoing answer yet to that crucial question. Words
"Onscreen is an essential book for educators, parents, and everyone
who loves to read." --Nicholas Carr, author of The Glass Cage and
The Shallows
"Naomi Baron has written a tour de force on the changes to reading
in a digital milieu. It includes and then goes beyond the work
before it, including my own. It deserves our "deepest reading" and
re-reading in either, or perhaps, both mediums!" --Maryanne Wolf,
Tufts University, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and
Science of the Reading Brain
"Anyone who loves reading about reading will love reading Words
Onscreen. Baron goes back in history to place current trends in
context, gives a tremendously clear-eyed view of the present, and
points towards a future for those who prefer printed books that is
both perilous and hopeful. What's particularly amazing is that a
book so impeccably and thoroughly researched should also be so fun
to read." -Will Schwalbe, author of the New York Times
bestseller
The End of Your Life Book Club
"The book is an engaging history of reading as well as a
provocative argument about its future." --Wall Street Journal
"Ultimately, Words Onscreen invites us to rethink our own reading
habits. By taking careful stock of what we gain in terms of
convenience and access versus what we lose in terms of
concentration and distraction, Words Onscreen offers an overview of
reading (both digital and in print) that is both broad and deep.
Undergraduates in courses that deal with a range of aspects
involving rhetoric and technology would benefit from it.
Graduate
students and other scholars will find that it provides a solid
foundation upon which to build more theoretically rich and critical
work on digital reading."
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