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And I quote:

A video game is like a book, one with many chapters. When you get the book, you're only allowed to read the first chapter, and if you don't read it well enough, you have to read it again. When you've finally read the first chapter correctly, you can go on to the next, and after that's read well the next, and so on and so on.

Often it'll just be one particular page that's hard to read, and if you mess it up you'll have to go back and read the whole chapter over from the beginning.

Scattered throughout any given chapter are optional pages, usually very boring and repetitive ones that you're not compelled to read, but if you do read them, it makes it easier to read the later chapters.***

Sometimes the book will refuse to let you read the next chapter until you've done something else unrelated, like solve a crossword puzzle or write your name with excellent penmanship in the margins.

Sometimes the book will suddenly have much better vocabulary and sentence structure, and usually during those times the book reads itself for you.

If you need to stop reading the book altogether for a while and go do something else, you are only allowed to put your bookmark in between certain pages scattered at regular intervals throughout the book.

If you want to reread a particular passage of the book, you may only start at one of the bookmarks and read forward until you get to it.

These books all require very fancy bookcases to read, and periodically new, more advanced bookcases are released which will not hold the books you currently have any more, forcing you to buy (often inferior) sequels to the books you've already read, or occasionally updated versions of the original books with sharper text and fancier fonts.

Also, most of these books are about jumping.

***Perhaps by making the pages easier to turn.

http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2010/02/dantes-inferno-game-review-preview.html