> The customary metaphor, voces paginarum - singing pages - precisely defined the attitude toward the book. Reading was then a form of listening, not only for the one who heard the lectio, but also for the reader himself. If you examine the descriptions of the act of reading as an ethologist, an investigator of behavior, you will clearly notice this transformation.

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