"The future of reading is personal!
It is a human experience with boundless opportunities
for exploration, that you define for its enjoyment...."
Reading: The Foundation of All Learning
At the heart of every learning journey is one essential skill — reading. It’s the gateway to understanding, discovery, and lifelong growth. Strong reading skills empower self-guided learning and are directly linked to both personal success and a nation’s economic future. In fact, research shows that a 10% increase in literacy can boost a country’s annual economic growth by 0.3%. That’s why governments around the world continue to invest billions in global literacy initiatives, recognizing that a strong foundation in reading shapes healthier, more prosperous societies.​​
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Globally, it is estimated that millions of people are below the standard age/grade reading level. In the United States, third-grade reading scores are used as a grim predictor of future incarceration rates and the prisons needed to house them. Why third grade? Because this is a critical milestone that marks the shift from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" — a turning point in every student’s educational journey. While millions struggle with literacy, the popularity and usage of social media have enjoyed steady growth. The average user spend 3 or more hours using these platforms daily. We would like to change that! ​​​
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"We are creating a social movement to support personal reading for the digital age!"
How? By harnessing the powerful influence of social media to inspire, transform, and reinforce reading! With Kusoma, we have re-branded it as a unique human experience, re-tooled it with creative, social, and interactive features and services to accommodate the reader's preferences, and have re-introduced it as a "personal" lifestyle with boundless opportunities for genre exploration.
This US Army female veteran-owned venture leverages technology and social media to offer users a lifetime of reading enjoyment through our platform. In doing so, it is our hope that it will increase reading and or reading related activities worldwide!
We believe the future of reading is:
