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Originally Posted by igorsk
Actually, from looking around the site, it doesn't seem to be a device but rather another ebook format with a bundled reader program (Windows-only at a guess). Can't actually find any info on the site, but it didn't ask me for an address when I tried to check out so I doubt it's anything physical.
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I bought one yesterday. Its not a device, its downloadable package. The thing is I may be a a bit of an outsider here. I read a lot, and I read a lot of ebooks (mostly from Gutenberg), but I don't own any form of reader. I've looked at a couple, but I am one of those people who lugs a laptop around (quite happily)
I think I'm looking at this 3d book very differently from most of the people who've commented.
Its what's been done with the book thats really hit me between the eyes (almost literally). I'm not looking at it as an alternative device. You still have to "read" as in reading any book. At the end of any particular section the writer has put together a short (2 mins?) audio video clip. Its not like watching a piece of news. For example,there is one clip that follows a story of a soldier trying to describe PTSD to a woman. The story's powerful and emotional in itself. then this clip, this visual of PTSD (!!) hits you like a shock wave. I don't know how to describe it accurately.
You can read the book without the audio and video. (You can also print the book out)
This is the best ebook I have ever read, irrespective of device or format.
Ps
I came to this site to see what the "hard core" commentators had to say about the "3d book" - unless I missed it, not one of you has actually read it?? So why/how are you all saying its rubbish?