Reading texts on computers is unpleasant
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Reading texts on computers is unpleasant
Perhaps the best way of conceptualizing this is to say that the device over-consolidates the materiality of reading in a way that smooths out the texture of our experience.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
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What happens when the reading experience catches up with new technologies?
IDEO • The Future of the Book | ideo.com
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It’s critically important to note that nobody I spoke with was against digital. That is, nobody was enraged. Digital books simply didn’t make sense to many of these folks on a wholistic or gut level. To dedicate yourself to a book is to want to form a relationship, and the strictures and webbing of the digital book world seemed to do everything to ... See more
Craig Mod • As We May Read
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When you sit down with a book, you understand the parameters of engagement. You know how long the book is. The book isn’t changing as you read it. It’s a solid, immutable thing. You and the book are on equal terms in many ways, as least from a physics point of view. You know what’s going to happen, and the book abides by its implicit contract, whic... See more
Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview
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In the largest view, I see a deep transformation in the nature of reading, a shift from focused, sequential, text-centered engagement to a far more lateral kind of encounter.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
My first step toward paperlessness was to stop reading research reports in printed format on paper, but instead reading them directly from the screen. Incrementally I would get better and better at it, to the point now of now finding it easier and more natural to read from a screen than from paper.
George Dimopoulos • PAPERLESS JOY
In contrast to the book, the Internet incentivized a reliance on skimming, multi-tasking, superficial thinking, and short-term memory rather than deeper understanding.
Matthew Nisbet • The Multitasking Meditator
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