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The End of Reading Is Here - The Atlantic

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Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 53:24 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Twenty-three hundred years ago , the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under Alexander the Great, envisioned a library that would safeguard the sum total of humanity’s knowledge. His successors inherited this mandate. Royal forces ransacked every ship that arrived at Alexandria, searching for scrolls. These were stored at the Mouseion, a shrine to the Mus

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