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So this post is actually from my notes last week, but hey! now I have internet, so I figured I’d post the notes late rather than never. It’s from the day we talked about windows and books as technology. The idea really clicked once we talked about the difference between literature and literary studies. (Because as long as we can tie it back to English and linguistics, I can understand it. Anything else, no.) Literary studies provide us with a frame in which to study literature, but literature is still independent in itself. It reminded me of this book I saw, called How to Read a Book. It seems conterintuitive. If you can’t read, you can’t learn how to read by reading, and if you can read, why bother? Yet the book exists, and at least one person bought it, so there must be more. In fact, its like a user’s manual for book “technology”. So many people think they know how to read, but are they getting the full potential from their books? It’s the same as Engelbart’s idea that the computer can be so much more than what we are currently using it for. It has the potential to grow exponentially, but no one has tapped into that potential yet. We are, in effect, still learning how to read.