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Orientation

Orientation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOUOr4kJoXk Confession Argument Project. Ebooks are here.

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Orientation

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  1. Orientation • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOUOr4kJoXk Confession Argument Project

  2. Ebooks are here “Among early adopters, e-books aren't replacing their old book habits, but adding to them. Amazon, the biggest seller of e-books, says its customers buy 3.3 times as many books after buying a Kindle, a figure that has accelerated in the past year as prices for the device fell.”

  3. Holiday reading (July 2010) I am in Whitby, Yorkshire. It is a sunny summer day. Pensioners crowd the foreshore and the narrow streets. The fish and chip shops are busy and the sea gulls are huge! I visited the Captain Cook Museum and was surprised to see so many Goths and Goth shops. Discovering Dracula was partly written and set here I pulled out my Kobo and began reading. What a mesmeric story! I couldn’t put it down and my wife became upset that I stayed in the B & B reading instead of walking.

  4. Kobo • Whole device dimensions: 18cm by 12cm by 1cm. • Reading screen dimensions: 12cm by 9cm • Weight: 220 grams. • Reading screen display: E-Ink. • Font sizes choices: 5 serif and non serif • Storage: 1GB internal. Expandable to 4GB with SD card and with battery life of 20 hours • Data transfer: Via USB from PC. • Audio: None • Navigation: 4 push buttons for Home, Menu, Display and Back, Pad button for north, south, east & west.

  5. Five Kobo titles • available via www.Gutenberg.org & in the Apple app stanza • STOKER, Bram/ Dracula • http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345 • Beowulf • http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/981 • NESBITT, Edith/ Five Children and It • http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/778 • CONRAD, Joseph/ Heart of Darkness • http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/526 • FLAUBERT, Gustav/ Madame Bovary • http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27575

  6. Kindle • Whole device dimensions: 20cm by 13.5cm by 0.5cm • Reading screen dimensions: 12cm b y 9cm • Weight: 290gm • Reading screen: E-Ink • Font size choices: 6 with serif • Storage: 1 GB and with battery life of 20 hours • Data Transfer: USB to PC and/or WiFi (Whispernet) • Audio: 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack with built-in speaker and volume control. Speech synthesis on most books. • Navigation: 2 push buttons on the left for Previous Page and Next Page. 4 push buttons on the right for Home, Next Page, Menu, and Back. Button for enter, north, south, east & west. Alpha-numeric key pad.

  7. Five titles for Kindle • available on Amazon and can be read on the Apple Kindle app on iPad • ONODA POWER, Natsu/ God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the creation of Post World • War II Manga • http://tinyurl.com/33wxgfk • ZIPES, Jack/ Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children • http://tinyurl.com/2cavqeq • HUTCHEON, Linda/ A Poetics of Post modernism • http://tinyurl.com/39bj9qc • BRENNER, Robin E./ Understanding Manga and Anime • http://tinyurl.com/2ay2vbx • GARNER, Joan/ Wings of Fantasy: using reader’s theatre to study fantasy genre • http://tinyurl.com/2366k4g

  8. iPad • Whole device dimensions: 24cm by 19 cm by 0.5cm • Reading screen dimensions: 20cm by 15cm • Weight: 700 grams • Reading screen display: back lit • Font choices: Variable according to app • Storage: 64GB and battery life of 10 hours • Data transfer: Via USB from PC, Wi Fi and 3G. • Audio: 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack with built-in speaker • Voice synthesiser: No • Navigation: touch screen

  9. Apple ebook apps and titles • iPhone Bookshelf • http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookshelf/id284934036?mt=8 • Stanza • http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/stanza/id284956128?mt=8 • 3D Classic Literature Collection • http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/3d-classic-literature-collection/id352342690?mt=8 • Kobo on iPad • http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ebooks-by-kobo-hd/id364742849?mt=8 • Kindle on iPad • http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/kindle/id302584613?mt=8

  10. iPad apps • Multimedia apps • The Cat in the Hat • http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/the-cat-in-the-hat-dr-seuss/id353473931?mt=8 • The Pedlar of Gushing Cross • http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pedlar-lady/id380527812?mt=8 • Jack and the Beanstalk • http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/jack-beanstalk-childrens-interactive/id364871348?mt=8 • Three Little Pigs HD lite • http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/the-three-little-pigs-hd-lite/id364760795?mt=8

  11. Experimenting in 2010 • Classic narrative text on Kobo and Kindle • Kindle and non fiction • iPad with Kindle • iPad with apps (http://www.vicipadtrial.org/groups/myapps/) • iPad with graphic novels • Android • Risks with WiFi • Vanishing apps • Updates can be trivial or major • Collaborative Clouds (www.readcloud.com/ )

  12. http://tinyurl.com/2eb958lAccessed 2010-09-29 • A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said they now read more than they did with print books. Of those surveyed, 58% said they read about the same as before while 2% said they read less than before. And 55% of the respondents in the May study, paid for by e-reader maker Sony Corp., thought they'd use the device to read even more books in the future. The study looked at owners of three devices: Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, Apple Inc.'s iPad and the Sony Reader.

  13. The Future to the Book http://vimeo.com/15142335

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