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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
@Dennis:
Have all ways loathed those 'seed packets' that fall from a magazine, and have never willfully opened a scented foldout.
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Suit yourself. The point is, that can't be done with an ebook. If you want to do that, you must use other methods.
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Will concede that the pop-up book is an art form , but beyond that, many of the subtle nuances of paper bundles will one day, and I hope soon, be integrated into the digital reading experience.
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If the nuances concern touch, smell, and taste, I don't see how they can be, unless you postulate direct neural stimulation triggering all the senses, in which case what you have isn't an ebook.
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As displays improve, and colour comes to the market, Cover Art will be just as relevant. As the processing power increases with resolution, so too will the number of fonts available.
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Font availability has more to do with platform than resolution or processing power. I have several thousand fonts installed on my desktop, and there are many thousands more I don't have. (And a large number I don't
want. My rule of thumb for deciding to keep a font is "Could I set readable
body copy in this?" The vast majority of fonts are things I might use for a headline. Once...)
And color and processing power will have to improve a great deal. Some of the color stuff I have in paper form would be a bad fit for a handheld reader regardless of color or processing power, because it's just too
big. A lot of posters do not scale
down well, and having to scroll around and display only a section at a time on a small screen destroys the impact that is the whole point of the poster.
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Call me a zealot, but I am eager for our 'brave new world' with such books in it.
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I'm all in favor of electronic books as an
additional format for reading material. I draw the line at suggestions they should be the
only format.
I'm not willing to subject myself to the limitation of engaging only one sense in two dimensions.
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Dennis