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I am not a Poet Laureate as I long ago aspired， when I was an uncontrollably creative contributor （and eventually co-editor） for my high-school’s literary magazine， but I haven’t forgotten the inspirational and physiological value of putting pen to blank paper and having pages in hand. And the role that paper plays in our reading and writing is the focus of this month’s featured articles.

First， self-titled “l(fā)iterary butterfly” Molly Flatt misses the simple times， when she “had a loving， stable relationship with one paperback at a time.” So she asks her readers，Is Your Reading Suffering from Multimedia Overload？

Next， in Reading Taught Me All about Life， Eva Chase writes about growing up in an age when “TV was rubbish”and how reading， often “under the duvet with a camping torch…influenced who we were， who we became.”

And in our third and final feature， Tom Chatfield looks into Why Reading and Writing on Paper Can Be Better for Your Brain， and comes to the conclusion that “the varied， demanding， motor-skill-activating physicality of objects tends to light up our brains brighter than the placeless， weightless scrolling of words on screens.” Though he concedes screens are also “something free to engage and activate our wondering minds in ways undreamt of a century ago.”

So if one thing can be extrapolated from the opinions of writers and readers near and far it is this： The digital age is a marvelous thing but don’t lost touch with the past， or else we may lose part of ourselves in the present and possible paths for our children in the future.

我不是桂冠詩人，雖然很久以前我曾這樣期盼過。那時的我思如泉涌，會給我高中的文學雜志投去一些原創(chuàng)稿子，后來還成為了那本雜志的合編者，但現(xiàn)在我也沒忘記提筆在空白紙張上書寫、手上拿著稿子時那種對心理和生理的激勵作用。這個月的主題文章就是關于紙質(zhì)閱讀和寫作的。

在第一篇文章中，自稱為“文學蝴蝶”的莫莉·弗拉特懷念從前簡單的時光，那時她“每次只與一本書建立一段有愛而穩(wěn)定的關系”。因此，她感嘆《多媒體閱讀——不能承受之重》。

在第二篇文章《閱讀教給我的人生》中，伊娃·蔡斯寫了成長于“電視節(jié)目一文不值”的年代，常常“在被子下打著手電筒”看書是如何“影響、造就了我們。”

在第三篇也是最后一篇主題文章中，湯姆·查特菲爾德深入討論了《為何傳統(tǒng)紙質(zhì)閱讀和寫作更有益于大腦？》，最后得出的結論是“多樣化的、耗費心神的、需要運動技能激活的實物，相對于無物理空間特征、沒有重量的屏幕文字，更有利于激活我們的大腦”。盡管他也承認電子屏幕“可以自由地獲取信息，它以一個世紀前人們意想不到的方式刺激我們充滿好奇的大腦”。

因此，從古今一些作家和讀者的意見中我們可以得到這樣的推論：數(shù)字時代固然很好，但我們不能因此切斷與過去的聯(lián)系，否則我們可能會迷失自我，而將來我們孩子的生活也會少了一些可能性。