Thread: What Electronic-Book Interfaces Looked Like 20 Years Ago
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Old 07-04-2013, 08:04 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
Don't own an iPad and so haven't had a leer (or possibly an eye-roll) at this:

The Waste Land for iPad
Neither have I. I just remembered watching a video about it when it first came out. I'm more of a traditional reader and all those extra material is overkill for me. But if I were teaching literature I guess I'd come up with uses for such things. Or maybe not.
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A glance at the right column of that page shows F&F desperately trying to create an electronic theme park out of their literary back-catalog.

Have a look at the rather tasteless cover for the 50th Anniversary Edition of Plath's novel about slipping into mental illness and attempting suicide (after all, "one year in every ten [she] manage[d] it"). The cover makes it look as though Plath just needed a makeover.
That cover is rather disgusting indeed. Trying to sell the book to the chick-lit readership, I guess. Some unsuspecting customers might be in for an unpleasant surprise.
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