The video was cool, go New Zealand!!

Sorry, but I really, really hate that metaphor. As an avid reader, visualisation of what I read is a non-issue for me and for years I thought that it’s only something children do. I don’t have anything against movies, but the assumption that a book is some kind of mind-movie is somehow offensive to me.

@Chantzilla Probably not, but I don’t really care. One can destroy a physical book, one can even destroy a great many physical books, but these days it’s nearly impossible to suppress the content (yay), so only the act of explicit book-burning (as opposed to just using an obsolete book as kindling) makes me feel queasy.

peterbruelles: are you saying you don’t visualize what you are reading?

In order to be able to understand a book (reading is very hard after all), one should read, first, the last word of every chapter, then the last sentence of every chapter, then the last paragraph, and so forth. Reading the book backwards allows you to understand the plot.

And fear not, this strategy is the most effective one for reading both Tolstoy AND Growing your own fruit and veg for dummies, by Geoff Stebbings (http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Your-Own-Fruit-Dummies/dp/0470699604/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258923293&sr=1-1)

Another really beautiful papercraft animation.

There is an art movement known as ‘book arts’… much of which involved ‘altered books.’ If you were offended by this animation, I don’t recommend looking into them. But if you liked this, you might be interested.