In her wonderful book Rereadings, Anne Fadiman compared reading to rereading a book: “the former had more velocity; the latter had more depth.”62 My experience as a digital screen reader trying to reread Hesse’s masterpiece was the opposite: I had tried to reread it as quickly as possible, and I had failed. Indeed, Naomi Baron63 predicted that the shift to screen reading would diminish our desire for rereading, which would be a great loss since each age at which we read brings a different person to the text. In my case, only when I forced myself to enter the book did I experience, first,
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