Comments on: Reading for fun http://manuelmarino.com/reading-for-fun/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Madeira http://manuelmarino.com/reading-for-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-654 John Madeira Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:37:05 +0000 http://manuelmarino.com/reading-its-not-for-fun-anymore/#comment-654 I have often thought that there needed to be a better way to get information than reading printed words. How long has that technology been around? Yet last month Amazon came out with another printed word reader. Granted its better than unrolling scrolls, but it still requires a human to read printed words. The number of printed words being read per person is probably higher now than it ever was! Albeit, what is being read is not necessarily in book form. However, regardless of the medium, the art of expression can always be noticed and make a difference to the reader. I have often thought that there needed to be a better way to get information than reading printed words. How long has that technology been around? Yet last month Amazon came out with another printed word reader. Granted its better than unrolling scrolls, but it still requires a human to read printed words. The number of printed words being read per person is probably higher now than it ever was! Albeit, what is being read is not necessarily in book form. However, regardless of the medium, the art of expression can always be noticed and make a difference to the reader.

]]> By: Siderite http://manuelmarino.com/reading-for-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Siderite Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:35:17 +0000 http://manuelmarino.com/reading-its-not-for-fun-anymore/#comment-620 I agree that people read less and less, but there are lots of other media available now: music, movies, games and, more important, social networking. People that would have written poetry or novels a few decades ago now can tell people their ideas as they come, they can choose to write lyrics to rock songs, write movie scripts or create (interactive) game stories. I personally use a PDA for reading. It sure beats carrying large volumes around or reading those awful travel pocket books. I download whatever I find interesting (after carefully reading a few reviews so I don't totally waste my time) and I read while waiting in a queue, riding the bus or sitting in bed, revulsed by TV. But then I can watch TV, or better download a movie or play a game. Reading is not just an action, but a state of mind. You need time, space and people to leave you alone in your own world so you can feel what the author intended, undistracted by every-boring-day life. But as we become more in number and remain the same in person, this state of mind becomes a luxury. Face it: emotional gratification comes in so many flavours today that the main purpose of text media remains informative. It's a lot easier and even more efficient to gobble down 1.8 hours of movie basic emotion, whether violence, sex or idle laughter, then Google for what you need to know. I agree that people read less and less, but there are lots of other media available now: music, movies, games and, more important, social networking. People that would have written poetry or novels a few decades ago now can tell people their ideas as they come, they can choose to write lyrics to rock songs, write movie scripts or create (interactive) game stories.

I personally use a PDA for reading. It sure beats carrying large volumes around or reading those awful travel pocket books. I download whatever I find interesting (after carefully reading a few reviews so I don’t totally waste my time) and I read while waiting in a queue, riding the bus or sitting in bed, revulsed by TV. But then I can watch TV, or better download a movie or play a game.

Reading is not just an action, but a state of mind. You need time, space and people to leave you alone in your own world so you can feel what the author intended, undistracted by every-boring-day life. But as we become more in number and remain the same in person, this state of mind becomes a luxury.

Face it: emotional gratification comes in so many flavours today that the main purpose of text media remains informative. It’s a lot easier and even more efficient to gobble down 1.8 hours of movie basic emotion, whether violence, sex or idle laughter, then Google for what you need to know.

]]> By: celetus http://manuelmarino.com/reading-for-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-551 celetus Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:34:58 +0000 http://manuelmarino.com/reading-its-not-for-fun-anymore/#comment-551 Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. -Ezra Pound Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
-Ezra Pound

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