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A book by Nicholas Carr examining how the internet is changing the way we think, read, and remember.

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Cal Newport recommends ✓ High confidence
"The best book on this would be The Shallows, Nick Carr's book, The Shallows."
From: The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back) - Cal Newport • ▶ 1:36:17 • Mar 2026

Attribution: Cal explicitly recommends this as the best book on the topic of how digital media affects reading comprehension

Mark Manson 👎 criticizes ✓ High confidence
"I remember in 2008 there was a book called The Shallows by a guy named Nicholas Carr. If you go back and look at that book now, it is a comprehensive 300-page exercise in how correlation is not causation."
From: What’s Actually Destroying Your Focus? • ▶ 7:00 • Mar 2026

Attribution: Mark criticizes the book as an example of flawed thinking about technology destroying attention spans.