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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
Since you're asking so condescendingly - no.
It's not as if I could do anything either way anyway. I'm just a user and at most could buy such a device/book.
But I still wonder how it is that you all accept electronic books so easily - while at the same time seem so opposed to anything that isn't a most exact representation of a paper book.
Even the notion of adding an MP3 player - something that sooner or later is likely to be built into the CPU anyway - seems to offend quite a few.
Not sure if it's going through, so I'll probably repeat myself - I wouldn't dream of forcing anyone to use or create such a "enhanced book" or whatever you'd call it. Nor would I condone/approve that.
Where would be the harm in accepting this option to be explored instead of vehemently saying "NO F....... WAY!!!!" whenever it is even mentioned?
So you wouldn't like it. Fine, be yourself, don't use it.
Do you think that all current books would suddenly be converted, the originals destroyed and no new books created anymore? The rise of MP3 didn't kill all written books in favor of spoken books did it? Or did TV and the movies kill all books?
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I'm a gadget nerd - I flat out love gadgets and tech-toys and all that stuff. I've never seen a class of gadget I didn't love.
I'm also a bibliophile - I love books - both for the contents and the objects themselves. I never saw electrons as a replacement for paper but as an addition to paper.
My only truly dedicated reader - the Sony - has an mp3 player, but I've never used it. I use my iPhone as an iPod all the time and I've watched video on it, my Droid, and the Nook Color.
I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy and I can see tons of places where there's room for innovation. Those genres are tailor-made for maps, images of non-humans, and a whole host of other things. Yes there are things I prefer to imagine, but there are other things I'd love to see. If there's music playing in a certain scene, it could be interesting to have the option to have that same music playing when those pages are on the screen.
I'd be concerned about cost - all those extras would cost money to produce - but it's certainly an option and I can see them appealing to the same market as special editions.
My real problem - as I've stated before - isn't with the idea of innovation and enhanced electronic books. My problem is with the idea that audio/video clips embedded in books is innovation - and that's what a lot of the people pushing enhanced editions seem to be thinking.
That's not innovation.
That's the kind of thinking that brought us the failure known as "motion comics."