Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

Andrew Piper, Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times

Robert Darnton, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future

And another essay for you:

https://harpers.org/archive/2018/10/living-animals/