Introduction: A Return to the Educated Imagination / Paul Socken -- Technology, Science, and the Book. Why I Read War and Peace on a Kindle (and Bought the Book When I Was Done) / Michael Austin -- Reading in a Digital Age: Notes on Why the Novel and the Internet Are Opposites, and Why the Latter Both Undermines the Former and Makes It More Necessary / Sven Birkerts -- Solitary Reading in an Age of Compulsory Sharing / Drew Nelles.

Physical and Philosophical Approaches. A World without Books? / Vincent Giroud -- Language Speaks Us: Sophie's Tree and the Paradox of Self / Mark Kingwell.

Poetic Readings. The End of Reading / Alberto Manguel -- Cold Heaven, Cold Comfort: Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? / J. Hillis Miller -- Fragments from an Entirely Subjective Story of Reading / Lori Saint-Martin -- A Very Good Chance of Getting Somewhere Else / Katia Grubisic.

Literature and the World (Part Two). Thinking Deeply in Reading and Writing / Keith Oatley -- Don't Panic: Reading Literature in the Digital Age / Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia -- Why Read against the Grain? Confessions of an Addict / Gerhard van der Linde.