The death of the reader, with responses

Joe Clark, “Unreadable”:

We realise now that long documents do not work on the web. We should never have thought otherwise. But all those short documents we’re reading instead are poisoning our ability to read long documents.

And here’s what’s missing from this conversation: the design of a text has a lot to do with how we read it, whether we look to “get in, get it over with, and get out” or decide to settle in for the long haul.

Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content.