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This insightful collection edited by Socken (emeritus, French studies, Univ. of Waterloo, Ont.) addresses questions around the future of print literature in the electronic age. For instance, studies show that young people today have interests that compete with reading—immersing oneself in a novel seems old hat. They reveal also that digital reading is distracting and that readers spend less time investigating complex texts. While the Internet provides easy acces...Log In or Sign Up to Read More