Here is a mash-up of recent piece in Scientific American on the differences between reading screens and paper alongside quotes from my book. The similarities are striking and of course rewarding. I just wish it would get cited a little more. “We often think of reading as a cerebral activity concerned …
One of the nicest books I received in the mail recently was The Association of American University Presses’ catalogue to the Book, Jacket, and Journal Show (2013). It’s a gorgeous reminder of the creativity of book designers, not to mention the vibrancy of academic publishing. Book design is one of …
I have been writing a new piece about using computational modeling to study the legacy of Augustinian conversion in the modern novel. …
Now that Nicholas Carr has declared the ebook revolution over, it’s time to get back to thinking about the interactions between print …
I’m reading Susan Dackerman’s Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe right now, one of the more beautiful illustrated …
In a recent article in Slate magazine, I argued that the kind of reading we do with books is significantly different from …
A really interesting new report released by wikipedia on usage statistics of its pages (over 29 million in English). And what do …
Three major publishers have joined together to create a new reading recommendation engine called “Bookish.” The site allows you to find books …
As part of my new work with computational reading, I’ve begun creating a library of network tables for different authors’ corpuses. I’m …
A fantastic piece in The New Yorker on a new publishing initiative called Inkling to make books more web-friendly by dividing them …
