How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine: "Pleasure reading is also known as 'ludic reading.' Victor Nell has studied pleasure reading (PDF). Two fascinating notions: *
When we like a text, we read more slowly.
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When we're really engaged in a text, it's like being in an effortless trance.
Ludic reading can be achieved on the Web, but the environment works against you. Read a nice sentence, get dinged by IM, never return to the story again.
I suppose ludic readers would be the little sloths hiding in the jungle while everyone else is out rampaging around for fresh meat."
Saturday, December 12, 2009
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