Thoughts on reading, memory, and immersion.
The only way to preserve immersion is to eliminate waiting
Most of the time, reading doesn't break. It just hesitates. A character appears again after a few hundred pages. You recognize the name, but not the role. You slow down for a second, trying to place it...
Why digital reading still imitates paper
Printed books are simple in a way that feels intentional. A cover, a spine, a sequence of pages. Nothing moves unless you move it. When reading moved to screens, it solved obvious problems...
On memory, immersion, and why long stories are harder than we admit
You are reading late in the evening, long past the point where you should probably stop. The story has settled into that rare rhythm where pages seem to turn themselves. Then a sentence lands differently...
I've always loved books that ask something from the reader. Epic fantasy series, long novels with dozens of characters, stories where places and names slowly build meaning over hundreds of pages...
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