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Timeful Texts

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How might one escape a book’s shackled sense of time, extending the authored experience over weeks and months?

Timeful Texts This essay is an excerpt from The Future of Text , an anthology available in November 2020. The most powerful books reach beyond their pages—beyond those few hours in which they’re read—and indelibly transform how serious readers see the world. Few books achieve such transcendent impact, yet given their physical constraints, it’s remarkable that any do. As a medium, books have no direct means of communicating with readers over time. The physical text is stuck on the page, generally read linearly and continuously in a few sittings. To be transformed by a book, readers must do more

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