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Originally Posted by ChristopherTD

Paul Carr reports nicely on this at

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/04/boo...ally-horrible/

The problem:

As you work your way down the page, following a little animated arrow — not unlike a karaoke bouncy ball — to keep pace, the app matches music and sound effects to the text.

The hilarity:

The other title bundled with my demo edition — The Power of Six, by Pittacus Lore — takes the don’t-imagine-just-listen concept even further: providing assistance to any reader who might struggle to imagine the sound a police siren makes.
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Certainly the founders’ public statements strongly hint towards a troubled relationship with literacy.
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My God, he’s right. Similarly it’s hard to imagine an owl without wings — yet, until today, no-one has thought to graft a beak on to a cow.
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Again, Cameron nails it: reading hasn’t been fun since kindergarten. Why don’t they make pop-up books for grown ups?
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Ugh. I bet version 2.0 has badges.