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Katherine Hayles Keynote Address at the Computational Turn

How many books can a person to read in a lifetime? In her keynote address at Swansea University’s Computational Turn workshop, Katherine Hayles surmised that if we read a book a day till we’re 85, it would amount to something like 25,000 books, though realistically the average bibliophile consumes only around 1000-2000 in her life. And so the capacities…