Various Introduction 1. Gathering Up Characters – Arie Altena 2. Better Stories – Henk Blanken 3. From Books to Texts – Andrew Blauvelt 4. I Read More Than Ever – Erwin Blom 5. Encoded Experiences – James Bridle 6. Watching, Formerly Reading – Max Bruinsma 7. If Words, Then Reading – Anne Burdick 8. Flowing Together – Vito Campanelli 9. Highway Drugs and Data Visualization – Catalogtree 10. The Revenge of the Gutenberg Galaxy – Florian Cramer 11. Where Do You Read? – Sean Dockray 12. Pancake – Paulien Dresscher 13. Between Reality and the Impossible: Revisited – Dunne and Raby 14. Weapons of Mass Distraction – Sven Ehmann 15. Reading Beyond Words – Martin Ferro-Thomsen 16. We Left Home; Why Shouldn’t Ideas? – Jeff Gomez 17. Delectation – Denise Gonzales Crisp 18. Welcome to the Digital Age. What Changed? – Alexander Griekspoor 19. Non-linear Publishing – Hendrik-Jan Grievink 20. Subtitling – Ger Groot 21. Ambient Scholarship – Gary Hall 22. Set the Text Free: Balancing Textual Agency Between Humans and Machines – John Haltiwanger 23. Educate Well, Read Better – N. Katherine Hayles 24. Reading the Picture – Toon Horsten 25. Apples and Cabbages – Minke Kampman 26. How Will We Read? – Lynn Kaplanian-Buller 27. Screening – Kevin Kelly 28. I Don’t Read on My Bike – Joost Kircz 29. Reading As Event – Matthew Kirschenbaum 30. Reading the Network – Tanja Koning 31. Nearby and Global in Its Impact – Steffen Konrath 32. The Interface of the Graphic Novel – Erin La Cour 33. Minimal and Maximal Reading – Rudi Laermans 34. Reading Apart Together – Warren Lee 35. Unexpected Ways – Jannah Loontjens 36. Consume Without a Screen – Alessandro Ludovico 37. The Networked Culture Machine – Peter Lunenfeld 38. From Noun to Verb – Ellen Lupton 39. The Role of the Hardware – Anne Mangen 40. From Reading to Pattern Recognition – Lev Manovich 41. Reading ‘For the Sake of It’ – Luna Maurer 42. The Matrix: Three Subjective and Intuitively Selected Pointers for Building Blocks for The Script in Which We Live – Geert Mul 43. Horses Are Fine So Are Books* – Arjen Mulder 44. Shapes – Caroline Nevejan 45. Achievement Unlocked! – David B. Nieborg 46. U-turn – Kali Nikitas 47. The Epitaph or Writing Beyond the Grave – Henk Oosterling 48 Jumping Frames – David Ottina 49. Pictures and Words – Peter Pontiac 50. The Grammar of Images – Ine Poppe 51 .The Many Readers in My Body – Emilie Randoe 52. Arrangements – Bernhard Rieder 53. Desecration of Reading – Paul Rutten 54. Epi-phany Plea for a Counter-culture of Un-reading and Un-writing – Johan Sanctorum 55. Savouring Thoughts – Louise Sandhau 56. The Stutter in Reading (Call for a New Quality of Reading ) – Niels Schrader 57. I Read in the Mind – Ray Siemens 58. Full Circle – Karin Spaink 59. Books Erik – Spiekermann 60. The New Orality and the Empty House – Matthew Stadler 61. Letter and Spirit – F. Starik 62. Social Reading – Bob Stein 63. Is the Role of Libraries in Reading Innovation Fading? – Michael Stephens, Jan Klerk 64. Slow Reading – Carolyn Strauss 65. Cyclops iPad – Dick Tuinder 66. Context Is King; Content Is Queen – Lian van de Wiel 67. Reading Becomes Looking – Bregtje van der Haak 68. The Library Is As Large As One Half of the Brain – Els van der Plas 69. Classic Canon – Rick van der Ploeg 70. Content Economies – Daniel van der Velden 71. Do Images Also Argue? – Adriaan van der Weel 72. Read Me First – Erwin van der Zande 73. Designing a New Stratification of Information – Ren#233; van Engelenburg 74. Dancing Words – Francisco van Jole 75. Books Are Bullets in the Battle for the Minds of Men – Peter van Lindonk 76. Reading Surroundings – Koert van Mensvoort 77. Reading with Electronic Blinkers – Tjebbe van Tijen 78. Better Tools – Dirk van Weelden 79. E-Stone – Jack van Wijk 80. Mushrooms and Truffles – Astrid Vorstermans 81. Book It – McKenzie Wark 82. Danger: Contains Books – Simon Worthington
11. Where Do You Read? – Sean Dockray I read where I am but sometimes I'd rather read where you are. I'd rather sit on your lap and have you read to me. I want to see what you underline and I want to know why. I want to know what's behind those words you're jotting down in the margins. Why are you looking in the index now? Is that another book? Are you taking a break? How many pages do you read at once? In what order do you read them? I want your reading to be my reading, I want to have your reading because the text is good yes, but only as good as sheet music, while what you have is virtuosity. I want to be there when you read, not when you write, but when you read, although I know that you can't read without writing, neither can I. We write when we read and we read when we write, sometimes I’m not sure if this is my breath or yours, or somebody else’s and I’m not sure that it matters anyway.
Sean Dockray is founder of AAAARG.org, an online archive of texts, as well as founder of the first Public School, a project initiated by Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles .