Blinkist is an app developed by a software company in Berlin. According to its marketing campaign, it “makes reading books realistic again”. But what kind of reading does it facilitate? I tried the app for a week.
This article discusess the ways in which authors can benefit from social media. What are the different strategies authors can introduce on social media?
Readers have to learn how to deal with online and offline sources and how to critically interpret texts, says Odile Heynders (Tilburg University) in an answer to Katherine Viner of The Guardian.
On the false dichotomy between strategies of ‘close’ and ‘distant’ reading. 'We should develop methods that oscillate between both approaches,' says Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University)
