Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. Intriguingly, Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed, and notes that readers have always skimmed and multitasked. In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, however, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles.