now purged of erroneous predictions
A revamped classic of
Three Bookbindings is now posted for your amusement.
***bookbinders’ artist
Laura West continues her spectacular productions from the history of bookbinding
***artist’s ebook
Here is a screen based
book simulation by Dorothy Simpson Krause that makes sense .a work of art.
***artist’s paper book
Here is a
folding world for web surfers.
the next big thing
the book and cell phone interplay
The cell phone as the ebook incubator makes sense. The cell phone operates in the verbal/visual reading mode. While it displaces face to face exchange, it successfully conveys conversation. It is portable and routinely carried as a necessary item of dress. This composite of features turns out to be the right medium for intermittent etext reading which is like listening to the scrolling content.
The book, as an ebook incubator, is the wrong medium for etext reading. The book operates in the print reading mode and is dependent on a physical co-presence with the text. If the text is simulated via electronic transmission the display conforms to print conventions including such anachronisms as page shape, page turning and thin screen presentation which still lack fundamental haptic features of paper print. The book is a crippled format for transmission of etext.
Does the book relate well to the cell phone etext? When have books not related well to conversation about them?
ebook is finally taking off as cell phone
“Over the past couple of years, the cell phone has emerged as a sound system, a video game player and a TV screen. Now, it could become the latest outlet for books. Random House, the country’s leading trade book publisher, announced Thursday that it had purchased a ’significant minority stake’ in VOCEL, a San Diego-based company that describes itself as a provider of ‘premium-branded applications for mobile phones.” Associated Press
farewell to the book ebook
“Now, Japan’s cell-phone users are turning pages.
Several mobile Web sites offer hundreds of novels ó classics, best sellers and some works written especially for the medium.
It takes some getting used to. Only a few lines pop up at a time because the phone screen is about half the size of a business card.
But improvements in the quality of liquid-crystal displays and features such as automatic page-flipping, or scrolling, make the endeavor far more enjoyable than you’d imagine. “
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cool book stuff
is this reading, or what!
NEW YORK (AP) — A quarter of American adults who have cell phones have used the devices’ text-messaging features within the past month, a new study finds.
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The cell phone continues in its incubator role for the screen-based and hand-held e-reading device.
books as omens
Dan Essig has kindly linked to FotB from his elegant, mysterious website.
hands-on on-line
The home study movement has converged with the book craft
kit trend. This connection will bring workshop sessions to widely dispersed book workers who will assemble a given book craft kit at home while discussing the results with an on-line instructor and other participants. The end of each session results in a virtual exhibit.
The sessions bring on-line communication to the service of book craft work.
master of the material book world
A recent
item on Richard Minsky does a good job, in a few comments, of encompassing his synthesis of the physical book as a message.
ìI donít believe in talent. If you have an affinity for something and keep doing it, you get better at it. If you live long enough, you can do anything.î Richard Minsky
another northern book blog
Christine at her
Mirabilis blog has wonderful notes on archeology and the prehistroy of everything.
far north central book studies
I continue to marvel at the
bibliography for the English department course at University of Saskatchewan.
“The History and Future of the Book” (English 204.6) is one of the English Department’s three “foundation courses” and is designed to introduce students to historical and contemporary developments in the technology and impact of the book.”
far north eastern book blog
Miriam Jones at the University of New Brunswick has a wonderful
scribblingwoman blog site with daily notes on books and writing. She has kindly linked to
Iowa Book Works.
She found IBW at
wood s lot.