hands prompt the mind
This exposition of speed reading technique is a magnificent indication of the
role of the hands in the act of reading and comprehension. eBooks are not hard to read, just hard to comprehend.
this site keeps poping up
“Only the ‘divine’ can foresee the future, but the desire to envision the unknown future is always too tempting for human beings, particularly those species called scholars and fortune-tellers. The idea of ‘future’ is based on the unilinear concept of time. This linear way of thinking undoubtedly constitutes the writing system of a book. A book is structured like a pyramid of ideas, consisting of a hierarchy of thoughts, a dominant logical point of sequence: topics, subtopics, sub-subtopics, all of which culminate into the supremacy of a singular idea, like God. This is very much the writing culture which has been strongly developed in the West.” http://www.honco.net/9809/roundtable.html#TOPICS5
reading mode morphology
Roger Chartier on the death of the reader. see http://www.honco.net/100day/02/2000-0531-chartier.html
***smokin’ idea for book craft sales
The cigarette pack is also a classical small book size. See http://www.artomat.org/ (From Olivia Primanis, ABW)
October 8, 2001, world war four
This doesn’t seem like world war three. That scenario of the cold war lacked the strategic use of humanitarian aid. There was also a similarity of opposing forces that stymied engagement.
The opposing perspectives of this conflict are different. In the perspective of the opened societies, the world is a stage for events to be played out, while in the perspective of the trouble makers, the world is a book already written.
interplay of reading modes
Jeff Porter of the English department at the University of Iowa has won the 2001 President’s Award for Technology Innovation. He is recognized for his course
“Multimedia Writing: Radio Essays”.
In Radio Essays, students learn to explore the conceptual resonance between sounds and words, discovering how sounds change the way we experience words. Acording to Jeff Porter; “An aural text is quite different from its print-based counterpart, and that’s because sound permits us to experience in a text what we might not otherwise see or hear.”
As reported in FYI, UI Faculty & Staff News, 39/4, 2001.
Craig is in the October American Libraries magazine!
Walt Crawford started a series of three articles on electronic formats with a salute to the library weblogger community and to Craig Jensen’s BookNotes. BookNotes is a pioneer site of the genre as well as an exemplar of design and content quality. Craig is legendary for this kind of innovation and achievement!