Set aside any emotional attachment you may feel toward the reading of physical books; the truth is that creative uses for books that do not involve engaging with words on a page already abound.
By the autumn of 1559 several foreign princes were vying for the Queen's hand; their impatient envoys came under the impression that Elizabeth was fooling them, "keeping Lord Robert's enemies and the country engaged with words until this wicked deed of killing his wife is consummated".
The company has a little fun now and then, when the master AI permits it, and today it has posted a few web experiments that let you engage with its word-association systems in a playful way.
"Reading can be freefall," runs the blurb on the back of Anne Carson's new poetry collection, one of several recently published books to offer readers a more interactive way to engage with the printed word.
E-books may not be the one true future of reading, but for millions of people, they've become the main way to engage with the written word.
And yet, she acknowledges, we live in an age when many people find it difficult to engage with the printed word.
While the notion of the public intellectual has fallen out of fashion, do you believe that those who engage with the written word have a collective purpose?
At 7 months, this otherwise happy infant failed to respond to his name or any attempt to engage him with words, his mother recalled in an interview.
In other words, engage with those you want to connect with.
"It is no surprise that Bratton revealed that he will use this so-called 'reform' against the people his officers engage with -- in other words, precisely those the new use- of-force tracking and disciplinary protocols are intended to protect"., she says.
