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Reading can (and should!) serve many purposes. I, for one, don’t really like the experiential reading mode. Poetry is fine, but for most books I want to understand it intellectually.

(Not a criticism, just a refinement of what you said)

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reminds me of roland barthes' conception of readerly (straightforward; reaffirms our ideology/offers no transgressions) versus writerly (complex; requires some leap/myth busting) texts