Reading
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"I know of no bomb other than the book." --Stéphane Mallarmé
Definition
Reading is the process of retrieving and comprehending some form of stored information or ideas. These ideas are usually some sort of representation of language, as symbols to be examined by sight, or by touch (for example Braille). Other types of reading may not be language-based, such as music notation or pictograms. By analogy, in computer science, reading is acquiring of data from some sort of computer storage.
Reading by humans is mostly done from paper, but other media are used, such as carved stone, chalk on blackboard: anything that can hold a mark. More recently these include computer displays, television and other displays in devices such as mobile phones. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_%28activity%29 [Feb 2005]
The Rights of the Reader (1992) - Daniel Pennac
The Rights of the Reader (1992) - Daniel Pennac
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An essay by Daniel Pennac, original title Comme un roman.
1. Le droit de ne pas lire.
2. Le droit de sauter des pages.
3. Le droit de ne pas finir un livre.
4. Le droit de relire.
5. Le droit de lire n'importe quoi.
6. Le droit au bovarysme (maladie textuellement
transmissible).
7. Le droit de lire n'importe où.
8. Le droit de grappiller.
9. Le droit de lire à haute voix.
10. Le droit de nous taire.
"Reader's Bill of Rights":
1. The right not to read.
2. The right to skip pages.
3. The right to not finish.
4. The right to reread.
5. The right to read anything.
6. The right to escapism.
7. The right to read anywhere.
8. The right to browse.
9. The right to read out loud.
10. The right to not defend our tastes --via http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring96/hipple.html
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