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photo junkculture: MELANIE MCLAIN READING PATTERN Melanie Mclain’s Reading Pattern is an on-going project where she keeps track of pages of novels and fiction that she reads daily. All the data is visualized by cutting squares out of the pages accordingly via defacedbook

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MELANIE MCLAIN

READING PATTERN

Melanie Mclain’s Reading Pattern is an on-going project where she keeps track of pages of novels and fiction that she reads daily. All the data is visualized by cutting squares out of the pages accordingly

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1 year ago

August 19, 2011
data visualization reading books
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Late Night Cult Classics (Bookmans)

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i miss bookmans

2 years ago

February 10, 2011
bookmans reading movies
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Portlandia - Did you read?

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2 years ago

January 22, 2011
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Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.
— Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via 52books)

2 years ago

July 19, 2010
reading
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In short, the fast-slow polarity – or antithesis, if you prefer – strikes me as false. We all have several guises as readers. If I am reading – to pick an obvious example – James Joyce, slow reading feels appropriate. If I’m reading the instruction manual for a new washing machine, it doesn’t.
— Henry Hitchings (via chrbutler)

2 years ago

July 17, 2010
reading slow reading
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photo Nathan Fillion Featured on Upcoming ALA Celebrity READ Poster (he’s reading The Softwire: Awakening on Orbis 4 by PJ Haarsma) via Kids Need To Read

Nathan Fillion Featured on Upcoming ALA Celebrity READ Poster (he’s reading The Softwire: Awakening on Orbis 4 by PJ Haarsma)

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2 years ago

July 2, 2010
nathan fillion poster reading
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Call it Reader’s Despair Syndrome, a condition that is afflicting New York’s young and old with equal viciousness, but which tends to produce the most dramatic symptoms in people in their 20s and 30s, who retain hope that they will one day become more productive and virtuous in their Internet reading habits. “It makes me very sad, obviously, when I face the fact that there are like 115 items and I know that I’ll never read them,” wailed a 25-year-old hedge fund analyst at a rooftop party over the weekend. “And it’s like, why can’t I be a good enough person to know things about anything? Why am I so pathetic that I can’t even read, like, 100 words a day? And then I have to hit the ‘pretend everything is read’ button, which is basically like hitting the ‘lie to yourself’ button. It’s embarrassing. I hate myself when I do it. It’s like the biggest possible failure you could have in your entire life, basically.
— Feed Me, I’m Hungry! New Yorkers Skim, Freak, Purge as RSS Reading Mounts | The New York Observer (via interestingsnippets) (via megpickard)

2 years ago

June 29, 2010
reading rss
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photo The pale blue fuzz of readership > Robin Sloan s a graph of read ers’ paths through The Truth About the East Wind. The x-​​axis is elapsed read ing time, in min utes. The y-​​axis is progress through the story; the higher you get on the graph, the closer you are to the end of the page. So if you’re some one who scrolled through the story… you’re in there! One of those ghostly blue ten drils is you. The page is rigged up with a very sim ple (and totally anony mous) scroll-​​tracker that dis patches data points to Amazon’s Sim pleDB at reg u lar inter vals. It’s a book that phones home. (this is data based on individuals reading a story on their kindles from data sent back from the units. the author is watching you.)

The pale blue fuzz of readership > Robin Sloan

s a graph of read ers’ paths through The Truth About the East Wind. The x-​​axis is elapsed read ing time, in min utes. The y-​​axis is progress through the story; the higher you get on the graph, the closer you are to the end of the page.

So if you’re some one who scrolled through the story… you’re in there! One of those ghostly blue ten drils is you. The page is rigged up with a very sim ple (and totally anony mous) scroll-​​tracker that dis patches data points to Amazon’s Sim pleDB at reg u lar inter vals. It’s a book that phones home.

(this is data based on individuals reading a story on their kindles from data sent back from the units. the author is watching you.)

3 years ago

January 18, 2010
kindle data visualization reading privacy
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A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.
— The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco)

3 years ago

January 6, 2010
books reading bestsellers hive mind is not a creative mind
photo infoneernet: Study: Rumors of Written-Word Death Greatly Exaggerated Conventional wisdom holds that YouTube, videogames, cable TV and iPods have turned us away from the written word. Glowing streams of visual delights replaced paper and longhand letters shrank to bite-sized Facebook status updates, the theory held. Conventional wisdom, in this case, is wrong. A large-scale study by the University of San Diego and other research universities revealed what some of us have long suspected: We’re reading far more words than we used to as we adopt new technologies. “Reading, which was in decline due to the growth of television, tripled from 1980 to 2008, because it is the overwhelmingly preferred way to receive words on the Internet,” found a University of San Diego study (.pdf) published this month by Roger E. Bohn and James E. Short of the University of San Diego. » via Wired

infoneernet:

Study: Rumors of Written-Word Death Greatly Exaggerated

Conventional wisdom holds that YouTube, videogames, cable TV and iPods have turned us away from the written word. Glowing streams of visual delights replaced paper and longhand letters shrank to bite-sized Facebook status updates, the theory held.

Conventional wisdom, in this case, is wrong.

A large-scale study by the University of San Diego and other research universities revealed what some of us have long suspected: We’re reading far more words than we used to as we adopt new technologies.

“Reading, which was in decline due to the growth of television, tripled from 1980 to 2008, because it is the overwhelmingly preferred way to receive words on the Internet,” found a University of San Diego study (.pdf) published this month by Roger E. Bohn and James E. Short of the University of San Diego.

» via Wired

3 years ago

December 29, 2009
reading books donut chart
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