Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Reading & Research
A topic within Reading & Research, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Argues that most of any library is not worth a reader's time, and offers rules, read the best books first, reread rather than merely add, distrust a book's fame, for building a reading life around a small number of books read well.
link checked 17 Sept 2026National Endowment for the Arts
Documents a steep, broad-based decline in literary reading among American adults between 1982 and 2002 and argues the drop tracks the rise of competing electronic media rather than any single demographic group's habits.
link checked 17 Sept 2026