world peace made simple
The easiest way to achieve planetary peace and cross-cultural understanding is for libraries all over the world to issue a Planetary Library Card. This should be a paper card with the two global hemispheres imposed over the spread of an opened book. The card will be signed by the reader and issuing library and be considered a welcomed credential at libraries everywhere.
reading by hand
“To begin reading, place your hand at the start of a line. Move your hand towards the right hand margin. Make sure to focus your eyes upon the text that your hand is pointing towards.
When you reach the end of the current line, move your hand to the start of the next line. Repeat this method to the end of the page. To make paging faster, make sure that your right hand is always positioned at the top right hand corner of the book.
Go ahead and practice this movement. You don’t need to worry about reading any of the text, just practice the hand motion and paging techniques for now. Make sure that you are able to rapidly move through the pages of your book.”
The haptic interface of speed reading method is a bit of a secret. But not to hominid neurologists or evolutionary epistemologists.
boogle
Will the Google ìdigital copyî really access out of copyright books? Certainly Google Print will provide a different bibliographical utility or indexing for these books, but why presume that a precisely formatted conceptual work will suddenly be more easily referenced, assimilated and comprehended on the screen? Thatís something like saying these books will be easier to use if they are on television.
Now Google is very protective of its ìdigital copyî assuming that the screen parsing and presentation is the proprietary product. But what if readers turn Google Print into a different kind of engine? What if an Amazon-like blog, front end simply processes Google finds across different reading communities, identifies titles of interest and goes to the stacks to scan for print-on-demand?
bookways precursive search
“We are aware that ëreadingí can mean many things, from reading a book aloud or silently, to the critical ëreadingí of a text (including dramatic and cinematic texts) in an academic sense, or (metaphorically) ëreadingí a face, a social situation, or the symbolic value of a text. But in the interests of clarity and manageability we have had to exclude certain of these ëreading experiencesí as outside our remit. For our purposes, a ëreading experienceí means a recorded engagement with a written or printed text – beyond the mere fact of possession.”
Reading Experience database