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Katy Vance

How we read online. - Slate Magazine - 0 views

  • And it's not you who has to change. It's me, the writer: One idea per paragraphHalf the word count of "conventional writing"! (Ouch!) Other stuff along these lines
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      Augh! I gotta cut down...
  • If you want to beat the Internet, you're not going to do it by blogging (since even OK thinkers occasionally write a great blog post) but by offering a comprehensive take on a subject (thus saving the reader time from searching many sites) and supplying original thinking (offering trusted insight that cannot be easily duplicated by the nonexpert).
  • When we're really engaged in a text, it's like being in an effortless trance.
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  • I suppose ludic readers would be the little sloths hiding in the jungle while everyone else is out rampaging around for fresh meat.
  • We'll do more and more reading on screens, but they won't replace paper—never mind what your friend with a Kindle tells you. Rather, paper seems to be the new Prozac. A balm for the distracted mind. It's contained, offline, tactile.
  • Moby Dick has become a spa
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