Reading habits for the new literary ‘dark ages’

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Wellness & Longevity United States

The 18th-century writer and polymath Samuel Johnson was seldom seen without a book. People say he read in bed and while walking. He even read at dinner, the pages folded over his lap like a “dog who holds a bone in his paws in reserve while he eats something else,” as his biographer, James Boswell, put it . The fact that today, Johnson is perhaps best known as the face of an internet meme —…

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