Books
📚 More nine-year-olds are reading books daily
39 percent of 9-year-olds read books or newspapers daily, the highest share since the measurements began in 2012. Daily reading is increasing among children aged 9 to 11 compared with the previous measurement in 2022.
📚 AI deciphers handwriting and makes 350,000 hidden books searchable – saves ten years of work
Uppsala University Library has used AI to digitize a handwritten book catalog. The work corresponds to more than ten years of manual labor and has been completed in a much shorter time. The material is now easier to find and use for researchers and the general public.
🍿 Amaze, amaze, amaze: Will Hollywood understand now?
Dear Hollywood, tell us stories about the best in us. About human ingenuity, about those who dream, who build, who refuse to accept that tomorrow must be worse than today. Tell us the kind of stories that make us shout, like Rocky: Amaze, amaze, amaze!
📖 Johan Norberg: How golden ages are created, how they end - and what it says about our time
Why do some societies become creative powerhouses while others stagnate? From Renaissance Florence to today's Silicon Valley, Norberg examines what makes civilizations flourish - and what threatens our own golden age.
🧙♀️ Harari is trying to create a myth
In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari tells about harmful myths. At the same time, he's trying to create his own myth. The one about our downfall.
📚 Sales of print books have increased 22% since 2004
Audiobooks are also increasing rapidly, with over 20 percent growth per year.