another new book studies program
hot ghetto mess
Paul Duguid
on Google Books. But error free capture is not even the significant issue. The closer screen imagining comes to print presentation the better it will serve as a bibliographic utility of print. The screen presentation acts as a discovery device for print.
And you know why? Because screen navigation is itself the act of comprehension that assimilation of content is in print. Screen navigation, and its distractive activities of de selection and deletion of search results, compile into an activity unrelated to learning from print.
Surely this cannot be! Surely digital technology can simulate the attributes of print. Well, it can and does, but on paper.
the future continues
“More cellphones have screens with a resolution fine enough to rival that of the printed page. The bright virtual pages, along with other advantages like weight, capacity and a built-in reading light, are gradually drawing readers from paper books, one of the last holdouts against digitization.”
IHT
The future of the hand-held reading device continues. These projections are always crippled by false assumptions. The paper books is far from a holdout it is a digital output. Weight is actually an attribute of the physical book creating its own semblance without dependence on software. It is an attribute, not a disadvantage, that the act of paper book navigation is not different from content assimilation. It is a disadvantage that the screen device requires the separate conceptual act of navigation and the distracting need to delete and deselect prior to assimilation. And of course the issue of resolution is inconsequential in relation to legibility or the immediacy of meaning. And who needs a reading mode that works best in the dark?
paranormal
ìThese are the kinds of things that booklovers never seem to mention; in all of the arguments about book being the ìperfectî technology, itís never talked about how ó if you want to carry around three or four books at a time ó youíd better have a big backpack and a strong back.î
Print is Dead
I certainly see your point. In fact you can ask why carry arround all the pages other than the ones you are reading? Even one book can be pretty heavy. Actually, not much reason to carry even a few pages if you can display the one you are reading at the moment, not even a whole page then, since we read only a line at a time. Yes, on the weight front the hand held reading device is much better. I mean, how much does a thought weigh? Shouldnít books weigh not much more than conveyed content? Who ever dreamed up this notion of conveying conceptual works with physical objects anyway? Its a paradox!
(Of course the real mystery is why the paradox is not. Electronic transmission better mimics the neural connectivity of the mind, but the physical book better engages the hands to prompt the mind. With a print book, the reader is the interface.)
bound book
Why is navigation for screen reading so varied and variable across applications and platforms while navigational for print reading is so constant? Perhaps this is because print navigation and print content assimilation prompt each other, while in screen reading acts of navigation and acts of content assimilation must be separately transacted.
reading the book
“This FREE one-day symposium will feature four scholars presenting a broad historical overview of the evolution of the book as an object, with a nod to how the physicality of the book (and actions such as conservation) can impact its use as an historical/literary tool.”
Intermuseum Conservation Association