ABSTRACT
In the film True Stories (Henley & Byrne, 1986), the main character (played by David Byrne) explains that he likes to visit new places because of the renewed vision they bring. Once again he finds himself noticing the everyday things around him, such as “the color of white paper and doorknobs.” For most of us, daily seeing can obliterate consciousness of the visual richness of culture. In the midst of this cultural blindness, revery leads us to equate reading with long hours of eyes browsing over words. Yet if we take a fresh look at the acts of reading electronic and electronically produced texts, we observe something very different.
