Ergodic Literature

Ergodic literature is a term coined by Espen J. Aarseth in his 1997 book Cybertext—Perspectives on Ergodic Literature to describe literature in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text.

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created by inconsiderate

last updated September, 2025

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This is a so cool, are any of these books that require reading the physical version due to special formatting on the page itself?

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The House of Leaves has very interesting formatting. Depending on how you chose to read it, there’s a lot of flipping back to foot notes and appendices. I would recommend a physical copy.

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