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Did y'all know that there was a period of history where if you knew how to read you probably only knew how to read out loud, and the idea of reading to yourself would be so foreign it's worth writing about? And this was much more recently than you're probably thinking.

History of reading: The beginning of silent reading changed humans' interior life

https://qz.com/quartzy/1118580/the-beginning-of-silent-reading-was-also-the-beginning-of-an-interior-life

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