ChatGPT is getting a serious audio glow-up. Thanks to a new integration with Speechify, users can now hear AI responses read ...

Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, ...

Ohio plans to reduce a nearly two-mile stretch of Reading Road from four lanes to two with a center turn lane. The $3.9 million "road diet" project aims to slow traffic through the city of Reading and ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

The Palm Beach County Library System has launched a yearlong initiative called Rediscover Reading. Reading for pleasure has declined significantly among Americans over the last two decades. Research ...

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 ...

Chrome on Android has offered a Reading mode for several years now, and Google is now significantly redesigning it. The previous “Reading mode” experience did not consistently appear on every article ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

In today’s cacophonous, tech-heavy world, trekking the priceless read-aloud journey requires taking a road less traveled, which is a sad reality, both for parents and children alike. According to a ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian at the New York Public Library, where he is also director of branch libraries and education. Nov. 23, 2025 As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing ...