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which Barb has remarked on in the previous excerpts, of the Internet, in that it
was available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, at least in my
school setting. But it is not only this contrast with a library’s regular open and
closed hours, which makes up a different kind of accessibility, but also the
lack of a “checking out” process, or rather the replacement of the same
through a couple of clicks. This gave new meaning to the compulsion to read,
as material was available in abundance, need not be processed through a
lengthy procedure worth the mention, and was not bound to a specific location:
wherever there is a computer with an Internet connection, there is a net of
reading materials.
And so what prompted the motions of an addiction (I say motions,
because I do not think it is an addiction as we would commonly define it), was
primarily a sense of fascination sparked by the texts that I found and their
format, as well as the fascination that I had in the initial source text. But
secondarily, (and longer-lasting than a simple fascination) my addiction was
prompted by the nature of the medium through which I accessed these fan
texts. In my own evolution as a fan, this was sparked by yaoi fics of a specific
Japanese anime; though I had been a fan before, I could “feed” my fan-mode
even more once I had chanced upon those sites of the net dedicated to the
media I was/am a fan of. Similarly, for Red this addiction was sparked by
Harry Potter fics specifically. As we talked longer about the subject of
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