Mihael Kovač is a professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He is one of the signatories of a manifesto calling for the promotion of higher-level reading.

He says that the future of civilization lies in the need to find the balance between paper and the screen. He warns that if children use devices at an early age they risk losing the ability to concentrate on a book. He believes that reading could be seen as a gym for the brains of people doing important things.