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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
As for your soundtrack idea - If a writer needs such a thing to suck the reader in to his story - he shouldn't write books, but moviescripts.
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What if the author has a clear concept in his head that heavily depends on the reader actually knowing what the author is talking about?
Not everyone has the same range of experiences. The book might still be good, but with the added knowledge of some random information, it might be a bit better.
Example: Stephen King, Dark Tower series. In the City of Lud, I think - a very loud drumbeat is played throughout the whole town.
A character identifies it as the drum beat of ZZ Top's "Velcro Fly" song.
Do you need to know that song? Not really, it's more or less just background information.
Does it help appreciate the situation? I'd say hell yes.
(Note: I actually didn't read the books. I just read ABOUT them and this situation specifically and happen to know the song.)
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Originally Posted by elcreative
I don't use my eReader for those, I use a tablet, a computer and, if out and about, a smartphone...
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We had that discussion in another thread, didn't we?
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It is rather insulting to talk of "bound pages of e-ink" and rejecting digital when you are writing for a group of people that, overall, probably embrace more leading tech than most... early adopters of eReaders, tablets etc.
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Is that so?
The impression I got - and still get - is that for many in this thread the idea of a digital book is only accepted as long as it stays as close as possible to the printed original.
Anything that goes beyond pure text - and perhaps pictures - is considered heresy.