Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting.

相比之下，沉浸式阅读意味着需要人们有意愿承担低效率、无目标、甚至浪费时间的风险。

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But with advances in hardware and more immersive reading now possible with ClearType, Brass thinks the time now may be right.

CNN: Microsoft banks on ClearType to spur electronic books

"Immersive reading technologies will provide a future tablet PC with the ability to be a good read as well as a good write, " Brass said.

CNN: Microsoft banks on ClearType to spur electronic books

The tablet PC, which Brass calls the "continuous Holy Grail of computing, " will also become more of a reality once immersive reading technologies such as ClearType take off.

CNN: Microsoft banks on ClearType to spur electronic books