Category Archives: deep reading

  1. Winners, Losers, and Screens

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    November 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                Bill Gates, who knows a bit about winning, said “Success is a lousy teacher.  It seduces smart people into thinking they …
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    Category: children, deep reading, reading, reading brain, reading well, schools | Tags: , ,

  2. UFOs, Conan, and Novel Circuits

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    December 8, 2023 by libroshombre

                “Which Presidents Have Seen UFOS?  Yep, It’s More Than one,” a Politco.com article by Garrett Graff that ran last …
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    Category: deep reading, fantasy, reading, reading brain, reading well, Robert E. Howard, science fiction | Tags: , , , ,

  3. Skimming, Scanning, and Illiteracy

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    August 22, 2016 by libroshombre

      The French started using the term “desperer: to be dismayed, lose hope, despair” in the 1300s, an especially horrible …
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  4. The Persistent Importance of Print, Reading, and School Libraries

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    March 10, 2015 by libroshombre

    Dozens of studies agree: people prefer reading print books over electronic devices. In the 1990’s some folks insisted, rather stridently, …
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    Category: books, deep reading, libraries, print, reading | Tags: , , , ,

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