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Originally Posted by NatCh
I think aapezzuto's #149 may be a partial response to the suggestion I made in #139, namely that we look at trying to tie the old notion of reading to a modern and futuristic vision of it.
#149 is an impressive bit of graphical work, and I like it just because of that, but I do think it needs to tie in better with a the more modern idea ....
Uh-oh, thought coming on ... what if the right-hand half of the book were changed to a generic screen type display? As if half a book and half an e-reader were grafted together? 
Or is that a totally bogus idea? |
Not bogus at all.
In an other note, it was said that reading is dated. I don't quite agree. Sure we have movies television and radio to communicate ideas but there are some abstract principles that can only be explained by metaphors for which only written words can convey meaning. Unless there is a brain connection machine somewhere, words are the most precise way of conveying some types of ideas.
First, tying old paper ways to modern e-ways is only a short term proposition until the ebook is popularized, we're in an education phase. But as soon as the ebook is fairly well known, that phase would be 'passé' and leave the logo to be redone. There goes the endurablility again.
That second is not bad either but joins the first in duration. Still it's a better iteration. The morphing of a book into an ereader is a good idea if care is given to define a generic shape for a reader. To that I'd add aapezzuto's #128 text logo, that is in the same 'old to new' morph style.