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Why books still matter: Reading linked to better focus, empathy and brain health

Why books still matter: Reading linked to better focus, empathy and brain health
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SINGAPORE: Reading a book can feel almost old-fashioned these days. Between endless TikTok videos, Instagram reels, YouTube clips, and AI tools that can summarise hundreds of pages in seconds, sitting down with a book and reading it from beginning to end requires a rather different kind of patien...

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