Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or
more or less equally practical and fulfilling. Pleasurable reading
is conceptualized as an important kind of casual leisure,
experienced primarily as relaxation, active entertainment, and
sexual stimulation (racy, pornographic stories). Such reading can
also be a launching pad for day-dreams or lively conversation.
Self-fulfilling reading is explored in a disquisition on the
liberal arts hobbies. This is no place for speed reading, but
instead is where we care to pause often to appreciate the artistry
of the writing, creativity of the plot, profundity of the message
(i.e., the information it contains), and the like. And in
fulfilling reading we sometimes want to analyze the material. This
book explores three main motives for reading identified as
utilitarian, pleasurable, and fulfilling. Its principal object is
to deepen our understanding of why some adults (and eager late
adolescent readers) go in for "committed reading," or reading that,
as we strive to acquire literary knowledge and experience,
necessarily consumes considerable time and requires continuous
concentration. The conceptual frameworks guiding this endeavor are
library and information science and the serious leisure
perspective. Through their lenses the author examines the reading
of books, magazines, manuals, reports, and other lengthy material
as carried out in the three domains of life: work, leisure, and
non-work obligation. In brief, committed reading provides its
enthusiasts with knowledge and experience, which among other ways,
are sought, acquired, interpreted, organized, and sometimes
disseminated within the three domains. This book also examines
committed reading in daily life, its ease, convenience,
affordability, and enduring effects. There follows a portrait of
the various reading environments, including music to read by,
reading at airports and on airplanes, reading in one's study, in a
park, on public transit, in public libraries, and elsewhere. This
is part of the reader's social world, which is further comprised of
book clubs, bookstores, Amazon.com, censorship, author public
readings, and more.
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