... communication and recording information, and developed into its many forms now. Similarly, our purposes for reading have greatly changed over time; Roland Barthes proposed a distinction between two types of reader - the reader with an ulterior motive (learning, criticising) and the reader for whom the text justifies its existence in the act of reading itself (pleasure).5 As Daniel Pennac describes; "the imagination swells, the nerves vibrate, the heart gets carried away, the adrenaline pumps, identification occurs all over the place, and the brain mistakes (momentarily) the splutters of the everyday for the beacons of fiction. Such is the state we all find ourselves in initially as readers"6 As literacy became increasingly prevalent, the form of the text had to keep up with the demand, and so printing and mass distribution were developed, from Guttenberg's printing techniques of the 15th Century, to the mass production of great literary works by ...

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