>> Books are disappearing from our culture, and so are our capacities for complex and rational thought.

are they? maybe it's a cultural thing or maybe the author's perspective is from 1st world countries. here where I live ppl can't stand reading books on digital devices (not counting tech bros in my N)

It's not people moving to ebooks, the amount of people I know personally who are proud of never having read a book for pleasure or not having done so in a very long time is absurd. Today's high schoolers struggle to read at a 6th grade level, and don't see that as an issue since literacy is seen in a similar way to vinyl records (something archaic and pointless that a rare few still enjoy but has largely been replaced by modern technology)

It's just the introduction that highlights the "reading is doomed!" narrative, the rest of the article says it's not actually so bad.