Abstract
This article presents results of a survey on the experience of reading books in the context of the third revolution of reading in Brazil. The research involved interviews with two adult readers. These interviews were conducted in half-open and tape-recorded way. Images expressed in the readers reports were analyzed, revealing characteristic ways of reading books: a) hungry to read; b) intensive reading; c) subjective identification; d) distracted reading; e) vanishing point; f) contentistic reading; g) interrupted reading; h) atomistic reading. We discuss how such ways of reading books dialogue with the immanent categories of books and with the experience of readers. We expect offering through this paper a small picture of the ways of reading books in Brazil, helping to identify ongoing cultural changes in this area. Besides, we expect to contribute to establish a field of critical studies in Psychology of Reading.
Keywords:
reading; experience; book; critical theory