{
  "id": 1930704,
  "title": "Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/did-smartphones-really-kill-reading",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-19T10:41:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/did-smartphones-really-kill-reading/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Did smartphones kill reading? In The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch laments that “The Age of Reading is Over.” We still, she observes, encounter many words, but increasingly find them in emails, text messages, Instagram captions, and other digital fragments rather than",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}