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Saturday 4th February

Rise Of Social, Demise Of Literary Reading

Posted at 7:45AM Thursday 12 Aug 2010

I am part of a diminishing of people who like to hold, thumb, page, and read books.

I am also part of an increasing species of people who are reading less from paper and more from screens. On my fortnightly pilgrimages to Dublin, I walk through Hodges and Figgis and see the evidence first-hand: fewer people are standing around the shelves and reading what they see in the shop.

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