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11-11-2010, 03:04 PM | #1 | |
Illustrious Ulair
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Voyage of the Dawn Treader
So, not Tolkien, but this looks interesting: Voyage of the Dawn Treader enhanced e-book http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ste...k=MW_news_stmp
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11-11-2010, 06:35 PM | #2 |
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Hm, possibly with animated scripted map with glowing letters appearing only when your computer clock determines full moon?
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11-11-2010, 07:21 PM | #3 |
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I'm well aware that I'm an anachronism in this day and age, but to me all those "enhancements" only serve to distract from the book itself. Do people really want that stuff, or is it just an excuse to knock the price upwards?
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11-11-2010, 07:30 PM | #4 | ||
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Obviously, I'm with Inzil on this one. I don't think my computer is set up to determine full moon.
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11-11-2010, 09:05 PM | #5 | |
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...and you definitely can't go giving the author a bigger share either--they might quit their day jobs!
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11-11-2010, 09:59 PM | #6 | |
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11-11-2010, 10:27 PM | #7 |
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I know Derek Jacobi is a great actor who plays in some Shakespearian movies, but I don't know if that would be enough to induce me to get this, for myself or my kids, if I ever have any.
That's kind of odd, really. I think part of books being so wonderful is the fact that in reading them, people must rely so much on their own imagination to hear and see what is going on. It is sad that people want to take that away from the experience.
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11-12-2010, 04:23 AM | #8 |
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While usually I am a Luddite I can see some useful add ons but I would like having the maps - I don't have a strong sense of direction naturally and am always referring to maps esp the Journeys of Frodo to get a sense of things so that would be good.
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11-12-2010, 02:32 PM | #9 | |
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Personally, I'm a sucker for maps, blueprints and such (preferably on good paper), but I can certainly do without such merchandizing chaff as 'interactive trivia' and embedded animations. But then, I've never bought an e-Book anyway and I'm not very likely to buy one in the foreseeable future.
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11-12-2010, 04:14 PM | #10 |
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While I'm a BIG proponent of eBooks (for assorted reasons, including the usefulness of them when it comes to visual disabilities), I don't see myself buying this one or any other "interactive" eBook. My nook (the original one, not that color nook they're coming out with) suits me just fine, because all I'm in it for is to read the book. I don't need any fancy graphics or read-alongs or whatever else these publishers feel the urge to cram into eBooks nowadays. (Though I DO really like the clickable notes that take you to the footnotes / endnotes in question; those are always really useful when reading nonfiction AND even fiction -- such as Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell book.) It just hits a point where there's just TOO much, and it detracts well away from the book. Whatever happened to just reading?
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11-13-2010, 05:10 AM | #11 |
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Oh he was great as Cadfael. I must admit that that although I haven't yet tried an ebook myself I have dipped a toe in the water for the Gutenberg project and Iwhen travelling - my young cousin in the navy allowed about a shoebox full of personal possessions at sea is certainly aprreciating being able to take a load of books on his iphone, and hte read quality is much better than I anticipated.
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11-13-2010, 03:33 PM | #12 | |
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I didn't intend to diss e-books in general - I'm grateful to the people at Project Gutenberg and others like them for making books available online that are hard to get elsewhere; it's just when I actually spend money for a book I prefer something more tangible.
Anyway, reading about this edition with its load of gimmicks somehow reminds me of Theodor W Adorno's words way back in the 1950s: Quote:
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