Bliterature is an experiment in animating literature.

Every weekday, I’ll read a book on my iPod. Or rather, I’ll watch one—that is, watch a video of the book’s words in motion. All the videos will be posted (or podcast) here, so you can read along! You can do so online or (if you have a video iPod or PSP) on the bus or in bed.

Good books ask us to engage with new ideas, which is mentally demanding enough. But reading is also physically demanding. This project arose from my belief that it shouldn’t be.

It takes hundreds of optical jumps (”saccades”) to read a single page of traditional text. This is probably why we refer to “getting through” a book as a kind of achievement. But what if the words came to the reader’s eyes and not vice versa? In other words, what if books could be played like videos, films and songs? Welcome to bliterature.

This blog is dedicated to everyone who never “got through” War and Peace.