For most adults in literate countries, reading is so well practiced that it’s reflexive. If the words are there, it's impossible not to read.
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If you raise a child on a desert island, he'll learn to eat, walk, and sleep, but odds are he won't spontaneously pick up a stick and start writing. For most of human history, written language didn't even exist. Reading as a cultural invention has only been around for a few thousand years, a snap of a finger in evolutionary terms.
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we’re very good at seeing, and the trick is just to retune that machinery to the demands of reading.
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