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And after a novel ends up as a movie we can just add video from that, and then maybe we can take video from Danny Kaye's Hans Christian Andersen to a book of his fairy tales, and then and then and then....
Well, I'm sure there's a market for this, but multimedia stuck in a book full of words makes reading it like having the television on way too loud when you're reading a regular book. I remember the first time I saw a multimedia CD encyclopedia, which was "hosted" by Patrick Stewart, who would pop up unasked at odd moments to explain to me what I was reading or how to use some aspect of the encyclopedia. I think that in the Richard Nixon entry there was a brief video of him giving his farewell to his staff, which frankly gave undue weight to that moment over the sordid facts behind it. The words "toy information" kept running through my head. Video properly used can enhance knowledge, but when you are looking for factual information it is counter-productive. And if you are reading fiction, well, you might just as well watch the movie.
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