“Reading for pleasure is an extraordinary activity,” psychologist Victor Nell once wrote. “The black squiggles on the white page are still as the grave, colorless as the moonlit desert; but they give the skilled reader a pleasure as acute as the touch of a loved body….”
Nell crafted that passage in 1988, predating smartphones, iPads, and e-reading devices like the Kindle. Now, his words tantalize us. Our shiny new devices deliver the written word to us anywhere, instantly. Yet we yearn for a reading experience as vivid as those black squiggles on the white page that he mentions.
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