Third reader definition

On the emerging, third type of reader (via):

Somewhere between the second and third definitions lies the feed reader, the delicious account, the “read later” tag, the favored tweets. The device becomes the tool by which we produce the anthology. But whereas the old readers were constrained by what could fit between two covers, the new ones are infinite—they have neither beginning nor end, only the interminable middle, extending out in all directions, too far for the eye to see.

This reminds me a lot of what Henry Jenkins is talking about in his (thus far) excellent book, Convergence Culture. It's not necessarily the new media that is changing the way we read, but it is the consumer (reader) who is "encouraged to seek out new information and make connections among dispersed media content." I like this approach and style of thinking because it puts power in the hands of the reader. We aren't getting owned by new media; we're learning to harness it and thus developing new ways of learning.