Achievement-minded parents of the 21st century wish their children read more. A mere glimpse of their teenager engrossed in a paperback would probably leave a permanent grin on Mom and Dad. The fact that one smartphone has access to all of the world’s media and can feed every imaginative impulse is a force that can overshadow the simple act of picking up a book. Things used to be different. In those ancient, pre-internet, pre-scrolling days, we had to physically source our ow