An article about how to interpret what we are reading and what, why and how we are understanding what we are reading. One of my observation is that, the altruistic reader is hard to find, as in many situations what we are looking to and through books is to find answers to our questions, more or less personal. The interest we share in books could be our interest in looking for solutions. Mostly when it is about pure literature. As in the case of understanding and open ourselves to our - non-Western cultures - the temptation is rather to use our patterns of thinking than to open to new ideas and thoughts.
Another observation I have after reading this article is that even we have books for centuries and centuries and the quantity of writing - in the online contemporary era - is increasing in an accelerate rhythm, our knowledge about the rationality and mechanisms of our brain faced with the written page is minimal.
Who are our readers and why we are reading ?
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