Does anyone read anymore? Every few years brings a new flurry of concern that books are a thing of the past. Look closely at the numbers, though—and talk to booksellers, editors, and young readers, as I did for my latest story—and you find evidence of a startling sea change. Deep in the digital age, people are tiring of their screens and their feeds, and they are rediscovering books (the paper kind!). This wasn’t supposed to happen.