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I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers _ there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
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I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers _ there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

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