Oh boy! Had to share this immediately -- especially as a follow up to Gale's last post. Is this the future of the PB? Personally, I can't wait to see where this will all lead. I know agents are going nuts, trying to stay one step ahead of e-book royalties. But the creative possibilities? What do you think?
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Alice for the iPad
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I admit that I've been skeptical, but that is WAY COOL!
ReplyDeleteCan you wince while laughing?
ReplyDeleteRegardless...I find all this tech stuff rather too much. If you have a computer, cell phone and TV you really don't need an ipad. And children surely don't need to burn their eyes out looking at a screen all day.
ReplyDeleteIf it looks like a book, and it reads like a book, and you hold it like a book...but...it's on A SCREEN!...is it still a book?
ReplyDeleteI say, off with their heads!
My kids are already addicted to Wii, Dsi, PSP, etc. And oh yeah, T.V. It it's on a screen, they're all eyes. I say, ban screens masquerading as books. Viewing is not the same as reading. I know, I know, I'm fighting a losing battle. But I urge all Moms of screen-hungry spawn: Unite!
the debate rages on. But this is kind of cool.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh. My prior comment in no way, shape, or form applies to the app. book Gale just sold!!! That one rocks! :-)
ReplyDeleteWow! Very cool! But I feel so ambivalent about the electronics. If it's all laid out there, I fear it may impinge on a child's ability to learn how to imagine for him/herself.
ReplyDeleteI understand the distaste for yet more electronics, but I don't think this trend is going away. Rather, I think it's barely started.
ReplyDeleteI did see something today that sent a cold, hard shiver down my spine. My town, like virtually every other town in NJ, is reeling from state budget cuts. Before the cuts, the town had committed to much needed repairs at our library. On our town forum, someone posted a suggestion that we buy everyone in town an e-reader and do away with the library. And I'm not sure if the remark was tongue-in-cheek.
I think Lewis Carrol is spinning in his grave. Gee, I guess I'm a luddite, but it could never replace a book for me. A book is a static thing, something to be savored in quiet, with the action unfolding inside your imagination.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely cool and thought provoking, but I'm still a curl up with a good book gal.
ReplyDeleteWow! Very cool, but I do worry that the gimmicky effects will make kids more interested in the animation effects than the story. Guess we'll see..
ReplyDeleteWow. Cool, yeah. But it's essentially a movie, cartoon, YouTube type of thing. Will every reading experience have to be animated? I'm fine with this as an addition to the reading experience. And I really get having such things as textbooks on an e-reader. But I'm glad I seriously don't think paper books will be totally replaced anytime soon, because I think this changes the essence of reading. When the book holds still and you have to read and look at the pictures, you imagine, at your own pace. The e-version is subtly more passive, and all the cool visuals might trump the words for a lot of kids. "Give 'em all e-readers and close the library" is a dumb statement to make if you're an e-reader champion. I was hoping nobody was actually going to make that ridiculous statement quite yet. If you want to close my mind to e-readers rather than open it, that's a good way to do it.
ReplyDeleteCL: I agree that books are to be savored, but I do think you can savor an ebook. At least, I hope so, since more and more books will be published this way.
ReplyDeleteJulie and Marcia: I hope that visuals won't trump text -- I totally agree that screen time is already on overload.
Robin: Nothing beats curling up with a good book, but I can see myself curling up with an E-reader. I already love my book light more than any other piece of equipment in my house. It lights up two pages and nothing else. You may think be virtually sacrilegious, but I think I could transition to an E-reader for night time reading pretty easily.
Wow ! What fun and what technology! Children will really have a great time with it but hopefully will also savor quiet time with a book whose pages THEY turn.
ReplyDeleteEileen