graceful, poised
touch screen, touch page
Imagine a readers’ interface in which sweeps, pinches and finger cursor tracking is supported. Revolutionary touch screen applications begin to simulate the fundamentals of the paper book. Meanwhile
Chegg follows the better interface. Evidently students also understand ergonomics of comprehension.
granularity
The conversion of serials from paper to screen appears less consequential than the dissolve of serial format. Now journal articles float away from their volume and issue and publishers may soon discard the print era formats. An even larger issue may be the role of serials as precursors to scholarly monographs. Here the reformat may yet occur, but so far scholarly monographs remain in print as the format of record. Ever see an academic book published as an e-book?
The relations of manuscript and print may be in play here, but even this threshold may not hold. Screen reading advocates are oblivious of any such granularity and that naivetÈ can put them at a disadvantage. In this regard print advocates are better prepared for the future.
foundations, grabhorn and codex
Two foundations,
Grabhorn Institute and Codex Foundation are dedicated to young bookmakers and their advance in rough times. Both are in the fine print legacy region of San Francisco.
methodology
We can contrast the presentational attributes of screen presentation with attributes of the physical book in a cohesive methodology. We can catalog the transactions including book-to-book, page-to-page, opening-to-opening, turning-to-turning and pacing-to-pacing as they are experienced up-front and on the screen. We can consider a wider field of meaning for each work of book art.
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