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When Dante’s Inferno was adapted into a video game earlier this year, LJ blogger Liz Danforth hoped at least one gamer would be curious enough to pick up the classic work.
In today’s post, her hopes are realized:
Because of the game, the boy got his hands on this book. To judge by that comment, he actually read it. Can you imagine how hard his English teacher might have had to work to achieve this under other circumstances?
other media also promote reading…
after I rented Dante’s Pornfero, I also read the book. so it’s not just video games that promote reading. although, in my case, I enjoyed the video better.
We’ve seen this.
From the point when the first trailers for the game went up, we’ve had an increase in people asking for/about the book and circulation has gone up for every edition our system carries.