Engaging with other people’s stories brings us new understandings of health. Research has also shown that reading can reduce stress and lead to improvements in well-being.
Ben Alderson-Day talks about ReaderBank: a collaboration between Durham University & Edinburgh International Book Festival exploring the experience of reading and its effect on how we live.
Like other big databank projects – such as the BioBank – the ReaderBank will create an open-source database of the experiences, habits, and preferences of readers over several years. This will enable us to observe the long-term effects of reading and the role it plays in our everyday lives, allowing for exciting new insights into the mysteries of the reading mind.
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