ABSTRACT
Reading might seem as easy as A, B, C, or might seem to be something that you do unthinkingly, like breathing or walking or, perhaps, talking. We are bombarded by written messages every day and those of us who have successfully learnt to read at a young age and who do not suffer from dyslexia or a visual impairment tend hardly to notice the sheer amount of written stuff that we process every waking hour. And the experience of being immersed in or carried away by a book seems to confirm the sense that reading is something that can happen more or less automatically, something about which you hardly need to think.
