On Words and Business

Books are not dead!

“For the first time in more than 25 years, American adults are reading more literature, according to a new study by the National Endowment for the Arts.”

Highlights:

• Literary reading increased by 7%, following significant declines reported for the last 10 years
• Biggest increase is among 18-24 year olds
• Nearly 15% of adults read literature on line in 2008

Two benefits of using a computer to express my thoughts in writing:

1)  I type faster than I write by hand, which means I can get my thoughts down as they flow into my head.

2) Fewer people have to decipher my worsening handwriting. (Which, I do realize the irony, gets worse the more I type instead of write.)

So this post on Lifehacker gives me pause…it’s a utility to turn one’s own handwriting into a font.

Have we come full circle?