> “A restlessness has seized hold of many of us,” wrote the American author Rebecca Solnit, “a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing”

However, as the article testifies, there is still pleasure (including a calmer intellectual pleasure) to be found in isolation with a book.

A useful hypothesis: Loss of attention span (due to an internet focus) can be reversed, and it is worth doing so.