If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Introduction: Digital reading has become a common learning activity; however, the empirical understanding ...

Reading every day can help people live longer and healthier lives. Reading before bed can improve sleep quality and help with relaxation. Reading has many positive health benefits. Reading every day ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What’s going on? This debate over ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading ...

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...

A paper published last month in iScience about how we spend our time generated plenty of headlines in the popular media. How many people enjoyed reading them? Good question. The work by authors at ...

The XML to JSON Converter is a flexible java-based tool/library designed to convert any XML input into JSON format. This offers a generic tool for converting XML files into JSON format, providing ...

A publicly accessible configuration file for ASP.NET Core applications has been leaking credentials for Azure ActiveDirectory (AD), potentially allowing cyberattackers to authenticate directly via ...

Pulling up to The Henson, a boutique hotel in the Catskills, it hit me what I was about to do: spend 48 hours with 14 strangers reading a book out loud. I’ve dreaded reading aloud since my elementary ...

A JSON parse error happens when software cannot read a JSON file due to incorrect formatting or unexpected tokens. This guide shows how to identify the issue and ...