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What’s happened to reading during the COVID-19 pandemic? Some people are too busy or stressed to read, while others are reading more than ever but in different ways. Leah Price is interested in historical precedents for what we’re experiencing now, from anxieties about catching diseases from library books to the fantasy of reading as refuge from the world. History shows that reading is affected by people’s working lives - some can’t read because they have to work, others read because they can’t work. COVID-19 is transforming the way we work, so reading too will change - but not necessarily for the worse.
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