The Page 99 Test: Jimena Canales’ “A Tenth of a Second”
The “Page 99 Test” is attributed to an invitation by Ford Madox Ford to judge a book by reading its page 99. Marshal Zeringue’s blog is dedicated to testing pages 99 and offers interesting analyses, often from the authors themselves. The test is an interesting mix of randomness and consistency, but above all it might just help us standing still in an era where navigation inside electronic versions of books is more and more efficient and where page numbers are threatened by CTRL-Fs. A picture worth 1000 words? Page 99 of Jimena Canales’ book on the perception and nature of time was… a photograph ! Take more than a tenth of a second to read her own reading of the page:
