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If you want more people to read, read books yourself #TEDTalks

If you want to live in a world where people read, novelist Ann Patchett has news for you: it’s your job to help create that reality. Tracing her path from a chance airport encounter through a career writing iconic novels and opening a beloved independent bookstore, she makes the case that reading isn’t a private…

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If you want to live in a world where people read, novelist Ann Patchett has news for you: it’s your job to help create that reality. Tracing her path from a chance airport encounter through a career writing iconic novels and opening a beloved independent bookstore, she makes the case that reading isn’t a private pleasure but a civic act that builds empathy, sustains a “long-format brain” and pulls people out of isolation. Ready to lose yourself in a book?

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  1. @CantTalkImRiding

    July 26, 2026 at 1:06 pm

    On dating apps I ask what people are reading. If they don’t read it’s a bit of a bummer. Doesn’t have to be nonfiction. Just read stuff.

  2. @tatianazal

    July 26, 2026 at 1:37 pm

    My parents are both educated readers and encouraged us early, but out of all my siblings only I ended up a reader. So like 1/3 kids in same family. But I can’t say that my siblings are less smarter than me. My own family’s example leaves me rather disenchanted with reading. Society sees reading as this magical universally good habit, and it really isn’t. It’s just a way to process information, not much else.

    • @juanjofel2

      July 28, 2026 at 9:07 am

      @tatianazal That’s true, but reading is so entertaining! Isn’t it?I hope my son will read as he did When he was 10.

  3. @chasmenear7130

    July 26, 2026 at 1:39 pm

    The PRINTED word is unequaled in keeping the brain nimble…. second only to playing music. Read EVERYTHING. You might figure something out…!

  4. @frenchgold

    July 26, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Some books are not ment for children. They do not belong in elementary schools, some middle school books are poor decisions. This is not that same as cultivating readers that love reading.

    • @agoatinadress

      July 26, 2026 at 3:28 pm

      Only fascists ban books, Darlene.

    • @ajs1998

      July 26, 2026 at 9:13 pm

      Booooo

  5. @walterkelly

    July 26, 2026 at 3:17 pm

    Says the lady on the YT short.

  6. @Doadeoke

    July 26, 2026 at 3:37 pm

    Model your idealogy. A universal truth.

  7. @eliaskulp306

    July 26, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    “Books are not the things endangering our children.” Incredible.

  8. @ashleyunicornsparkles5489

    July 26, 2026 at 10:10 pm

    I’m reading The Book That Broke the World by Maxwell Lawrence

  9. @muoimuoixinhxan

    July 27, 2026 at 7:58 am

    The era of short videos has made the human brain lazier and significantly reduced its size😢

  10. @Edit_Army7

    July 27, 2026 at 10:05 am

    Nice reminder

  11. @MrBip38

    July 28, 2026 at 4:22 am

    ❤❤❤❤❤

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