How many times have you heard that the net has sucked every last drop of inky-black blood from the veins of our poor old novels and books and reading-by-short-attention-span-humans in general?
Well, turns out it just ain’t so. In fact, it way ain’t so. The chart that bears this out is in The Atlantic, a publication that I actually get delivered to my house – you won’t believe this, but it’s true – by a live person driving a combustion-engine vehicle who works for a vast government agency charged with putting words printed on paper into the hands of American citizens six days a week, all year round. Strange, but actual. I swear. Anyway, the chart is short & sweet and worth a glance just to cheer yourself up if, like me, you tend to fret about spaceship Earth and the brains of the big, keyboard-tapping apes who’ ve stumbled, blinking, into the control room.