Short for "virtual reading." Interacting with a text in any form, whether it's reading a printed book, reading an e-book, listening to an audiobook, touching a braille book, having it zapped into your brain with electrodes... whatever gets the information into your brain. Designed to end those endless, tedious arguments about whether listening to audiobooks is really "reading." The VR is pronounced like "vroom."

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods