Johnathan at ξἐνος has posted a striking announcement of an exciting new technological breakthrough: New Technology Coming Soon!!!!!!! Despite his predilection for exclamation marks, and despite the video being in Spanish, you probably ought to watch it before the one I repeat below (in Norwegian, but both have subtitles for the linguistically challenged) ;)
Browsing Posts in Reading
You’ll see the point of my title if you read John Dyer’s fine and thought provoking post Are Chapter and Verse Numbers Making Us Stupid? John begins from Nicholas Carr’s provocative discussion of hypertext and what links do to our reading: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (at least the leaks [...]
I’ve been too busy today trying to incorporate dead and still living German scholars into my reading of Amos that I have not read my RSS feeds, but I took a few minutes out to Facebook, and saw Bill’s post “Y Jnny Cnt Rd d Bbl“. He mentioned my how not to read books (Thanks [...]
[Repost from old blog, to allow reference here in a later post.] Good students avoid reading books. To explain this I need to start by describing how average students read, so you will understand what I mean. The average student faced with a book reads it. They begin at the beginning (or more likely at [...]
