Wednesday, October 5, 2011


The following is an excerpt from Tan Lin's Heath. It was read through a speech recognition program without editing, and here is the result. 

Take three as cinematic display, the magazine/book today functions this digitally i.e. most people who read them a looking at the title of the movie very slowly, i.e. with slightly more retention than film images. Retention studies indicate that students who read books on computer screens forget or Ms.-remember content at twice the rate of conventional readers. In Kindle, book pages (software-simulated book pages i.e. a GUI mimics a photograph page) morphed into cinematic images that move in horizontal success in as slowly as the retina one scanned library shelving systems. Books, like heraldry of an earlier era, now comprise a” floral border in the garden of history.” (Wikipedia,” heraldry”). People don't read text so much as look at it or download multiple reading formats for text. Such practices are not new to e-book reading: scheming, fanning, page flipping, reading books about books, blurb reading, browsing or looking at a book in a spectrum of colors, binding styles, shelf-Heights, and library floors, or even simple forgetting, etc., constitute earlier non--reading, three-digital formats of text processing. Yikes

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