Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)

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From: the Robot Vegetable
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:56

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In rec.arts.books Harlan Messinger <h.messinger@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> "The Other" <other@no.email.pls> wrote in message
>> Becauseitwashardtodiscernthewordswithoutspacesseparatingthem.
>> Apparently, silent reading became widespread when books started being
>> written with spaces between words. _Space Between Words: The Origin of
>> Silent Reading_ by Paul Saenger has been recommended here on
>> rec.arts.books.
> 
> So in Thailand everybody still reads out loud?
> 

   Um <goes and checks some books> well, I can't read them anymore,
but there are definitely spaces between word sized groups of letters
in the books I have sitting around.

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