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Losing the Thread

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The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott; Doubleday, 208 pp., $28
As reading habits wane, we devotees of books rally to one another like the exiles on the train tracks in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Those noble book memorizers defied their dystopian darkness. “They weren’t at all certain that the things they carried in their heads might make every future dawn glow with a purer light,” Bradbury writes. Yet this “odd minority crying in

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