The Changing Nature of Reading an Overview from Ancient Greece to the Technological Era

The appeals to intensify the habit of reading are so recurrent that it seems unnecessary to insist on its benefits for the development of the most important human faculties. Over time, however, this activity has been accomplished differently depending on its material conditions and, above all, on the functions that writing assumes. Nowadays the same value of writing is changing and reveals its last manifestation, the digital one, which creates texts that have not yet been transformed into actual works.