For a change, in these last weeks I used my free time, and not so free, on multiple readings. That there would be nothing remarkable as always. The unusual thing was having to carry a few books on his back and another was kept at home for reviewed at the end of the day.
One book that most caught my attention was Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, a novel that branches in different topics and characters that speak later. However, his reading has made me think of the eBook.
In the past, most medical texts were monochrome text, which retains some special pages for color atlas of clinical images. But the great treaty preserved a monotony of black and white. Only a few decades ago was introduced in the text color as well as tables and graphs. The British were the first books experiment with the color palette.
still remember those new editions of old treaties that I refused to buy just because he felt the addition of figures and tables plus colorful as a senseless, l did not improve or presentation or the meaning of texts, which is what eventually matter. I thought it was a matter of time. Today you can find texts designed and written in a style in which the variety of colors provides a great value. Eventually
electronic editions also appeared in CD ROM and the Internet, allowing constant updating in areas where the progress of investigations made obsolete text in less than a year. Now Hyperlinks let you jump from one topic to another due to the importance that each reader assigned or deemed necessary.
What's the commentary? I return to the Phantom of Anil, a drama set mostly in Sri Lanka, with some expressions in Sinhalese, with archaeological data, medical and forensic expertise, that have slowed my reading to consult dictionaries, maps and printed texts or the Internet to better understand the plot , which has not been a nuisance but it has enriched my reading.
An electronic text with hyperlinks to important information relating to me to enrich the plot would have made my reading more enjoyable. Discover the fact that one of the medical books forensics referenced in the novel actually exists.
Now that there is discussion between the printed and electronic, on a migration that is now difficult and perhaps not be in the next decade, it is necessary to distinguish the important from the accessory. One version of the transition from the Gutenberg to Google as it was pointed Vila-Matas
A platform, call Kindle, iPad or Reader, at this time is helpful because it can store a lot of books in a small space, fulfilling the desire for portable library, but for many people this is not necessary and having an electronic book will not be a gadget that becomes more attractive but not very functional.
However, the real challenge of literary e-book will go through a different conception of the creative conception and literary publishing, as I think the decision to use hyperlinks, not to skip chapters as a modern version of Hopscotch but to expand text to amend the act of reading or the meaning of it, to increase content. May also include images, audio and / or videos. Of course, not all the works and the authors would conform to the new system but it is expected, or at least I hope so, the future could come from that side.
That is my opinion that goes with my taste to make I read in a fractal, ie branching reading concepts as they arrive in the text, but always with the possibility of returning to the original narrative stream.
course speculation and debate, and the development of electronic publishing are just taking the momentum. But that does not mean that one can imagine or want the future of electronic letters.
will we be so close, only to return a byte?
One book that most caught my attention was Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, a novel that branches in different topics and characters that speak later. However, his reading has made me think of the eBook.
In the past, most medical texts were monochrome text, which retains some special pages for color atlas of clinical images. But the great treaty preserved a monotony of black and white. Only a few decades ago was introduced in the text color as well as tables and graphs. The British were the first books experiment with the color palette.
still remember those new editions of old treaties that I refused to buy just because he felt the addition of figures and tables plus colorful as a senseless, l did not improve or presentation or the meaning of texts, which is what eventually matter. I thought it was a matter of time. Today you can find texts designed and written in a style in which the variety of colors provides a great value. Eventually
electronic editions also appeared in CD ROM and the Internet, allowing constant updating in areas where the progress of investigations made obsolete text in less than a year. Now Hyperlinks let you jump from one topic to another due to the importance that each reader assigned or deemed necessary.
What's the commentary? I return to the Phantom of Anil, a drama set mostly in Sri Lanka, with some expressions in Sinhalese, with archaeological data, medical and forensic expertise, that have slowed my reading to consult dictionaries, maps and printed texts or the Internet to better understand the plot , which has not been a nuisance but it has enriched my reading.
An electronic text with hyperlinks to important information relating to me to enrich the plot would have made my reading more enjoyable. Discover the fact that one of the medical books forensics referenced in the novel actually exists.
Now that there is discussion between the printed and electronic, on a migration that is now difficult and perhaps not be in the next decade, it is necessary to distinguish the important from the accessory. One version of the transition from the Gutenberg to Google as it was pointed Vila-Matas
A platform, call Kindle, iPad or Reader, at this time is helpful because it can store a lot of books in a small space, fulfilling the desire for portable library, but for many people this is not necessary and having an electronic book will not be a gadget that becomes more attractive but not very functional.
However, the real challenge of literary e-book will go through a different conception of the creative conception and literary publishing, as I think the decision to use hyperlinks, not to skip chapters as a modern version of Hopscotch but to expand text to amend the act of reading or the meaning of it, to increase content. May also include images, audio and / or videos. Of course, not all the works and the authors would conform to the new system but it is expected, or at least I hope so, the future could come from that side.
That is my opinion that goes with my taste to make I read in a fractal, ie branching reading concepts as they arrive in the text, but always with the possibility of returning to the original narrative stream.
course speculation and debate, and the development of electronic publishing are just taking the momentum. But that does not mean that one can imagine or want the future of electronic letters.
will we be so close, only to return a byte?
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