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reading

At the end of the day it’s about story.

It doesn’t matter if it’s on the printed page, in an e-book, on an iPad or even on the back of a cereal packet – it’s a writer’s job to be read. And the corollary is that it’s a reader’s job to read.

Debates about page versus screen, shallow versus deep, these are distractions. So are the future versus the past, adapting versus stagnating.

Story is how we make sense of the world. We’re hardwired that way.

 

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Downloading Optimism: Pessimism virus detected

November 19, 2009

via BoingBoing – comic artist Lucy Knisley has posted a charming and eloquent defence of digital reading, in the form of a comic, on her blog ArtJournal. I adored this, but not quite as much as her 1980s re-imagining of Harry Potter, complete with David Bowie and a Neverending Story luck dragon.

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I dig your marginalia

August 4, 2009

The quote of the day comes from YA blogger Steph Bowe: I love it when you borrow a book from the library for school and all the relevant passages have already been underlined, all the pages you’re meant to read are dog-eared, and there are notes in the margins that match the questions you’re meant [...]

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