After all, a little over a decade ago a report from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) raised a legitimate concern that many people were reading less than they had only a short time before, possibly due to the influence of digital reading. A few years later another report,17 initiated by the esteemed poet and then NEA director Dana Gioia, indicated that the trend had been reversed and that as a society we were reading more than ever, possibly spurred on by the same digitally based factor.
