Kes: I don't know if the statistics have radically altered in recent years but, as I understand it, approximately half of the people who use quote special formats unquote such as those found on Bookshare.org have print disabilities, such as dyslexia, rather than visual impairments. The statistics are not trivial for, as this blog post mentions, ( Read more... )

From the GoodReads.com quote of the day

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
- Philip Roth

The author of American Pastoral was born on this day in 1933.

Kes: This article manages to sum up in a relatively small word count the three major distinctions which paper fetishist repeatedly make between the audiobook and the "book-book ( Read more... )

Jesse the K sent me this review from the NY Times (warning: it has many spoilers, so don't read the rest of the review until after you read the book), and it perfectly describes how I've been wandering about trying to find a book which will be as satisfying as _Reamde_. I tried A. S. Byatt's _Ragnorok_, but that was a mistake: reading Byatt right ( Read more... )

LJ user tasha18 and I were exchanging some comments regarding ( Read more... )

Kes: From Inside Higher Ed comes this article by a psychologist on why fiction is so appealing. I was hoping he would use more precise terms and concepts, but I will also note that he dismisses horror and S&M as operating by some principle other than that which he proposes in his article, so I'm a little dubious about how his biases shape his ( Read more... )

Via the MindHacks blog ( Read more... )

I feel really conflicted by the idea of "neuro lit crit" http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=14270Read more... )

from this morning's NPR morning show ( Read more... )

Has anyone written about this topic? I was reading another rant about ( Read more... )