Do you read fiction? Do you find yourself ‘hearing’ the different character voices as you read them (other than audiobooks, naturally). Do you picture the world the story is set in great detail? These are the sort of questions that Reader Bank is all about. It’s a new research project looking into longitudinal behaviours of readers and how it relates to, well, who readers are and how they think. It’s an ambitious project that you can be a part of no matter how much or little you read. Maybe doing their studies will motivate you to read more.
ReaderBank is the world’s most ambitious study of reading, imagination, and wellbeing. Every day, readers around the world lose themselves in novels or poetry, but how and why that happens can be mysterious and unexpected. With ReaderBank, we are aiming to collect a variety of information on what it is to read and imagine. From lively festivals like the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Jaipur Literature Festival, to our own workshops and projects, we collate stories of how literature touches lives across the globe.
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ReaderBank explores reading experiences to understand how we imagine, how we think, how we feel, and how we inhabit our everyday worlds.