The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs Diet & Nutrition Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is

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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs Diet & Nutrition Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) isIn recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a