But while we have received steady feedback from students who have been helped by our site, and this has been very rewarding, there has been no response at all from anyone who has done much reading. And so our goal has evolved, and a site originally designed just for reading is now more focused on study and research. The Walden Express provides a structure that can help in understanding how the various parts of Walden fit together. The Thoreau Reader has also grown to include the work of a number of talented writers, photographers, and poets, who help to make Thoreau's writings more readable and understandable.
Readable text remains a priority.
Blank lines between paragraphs help in following the text while scrolling. Each new school year, many thousands of students are introduced to a great writer that they are just not prepared to understand. The continuing experiment of this site is to find ways to fit Henry Thoreau into their lives.