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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last updated September, 2025
This is a so cool, are any of these books that require reading the physical version due to special formatting on the page itself?
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.