Alexandra List

When I read this book in grad school, it totally changed my view of reading. The terms used (hypertext systems, web-based publishing) now seem dated, but the ideas introduced — about the importance of critical evaluation and the challenges of doing so in supersaturated, ill-structured information contexts — have never been more current. I often recommend this book to grad students as a model of rich theorizing about the simultaneously cognitive and contextualized nature of reading and learning.