If you are a reader and a book-lover, the world can seem like a pretty bleak place right now. There’s not much good news coming in and all studies point to a doomsday looming over us all. When Giants fall And when the leading lights fall prey to the epidemic, it all begins to seem quite hopeless. Maryanne Wolf, an expert on the science of reading, is dismayed that she has, “begun to read more to be informed than to be immersed. I read too fast to comprehend deeper levels because I have lost cognitive patience.” Acclaimed writer, Nicholas Carr, concludes that use of digital media has “chipped...