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Originally Posted by pdurrant
This.
Do I want an enhanced version of "Pride and Prejudice" with clips from various film versions? I most certainly do not. Nor do I want sound effects or animated graphics in novels.
But in non-fiction? I can see that there could be many useful and welcome enhancements to ebooks in terms of extra audio, video and animation features.
As a very basic sample, a diagram of a four-stroke engine that could be zoomed, rotated and would loop through the engine cycle, would be a vast improvement on a set of static diagrams of the engine in various stages of the engine cycle.
In short:
Fiction: No
Non-fiction: Yes
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+1 to that
Manually moveable/resizeable 3d models or step by step animations in books teaching skills and craft. :thumbup:
Reading systems capable of handling (resize and scrolling) larger addon images (diagrams or maps) like the big maps added on extra sheets to some books - ditto.
A squealing, wiggling, trumpeting and flashing pseudo-"enhanced" multimedia app being called a book - no thanks.
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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
It's somewhat funny how most of the replies to these topics feel VERY similar to the discussions regarding pBook vs. eBook.
In both cases the term "book" is defined and defended and must not be deviated from, because a "book" is only a "book" when it is exactly as a "book" should be.
Heavens forbid someone try to improve upon it, then it would immediately cease to be a book and become somthing so entirely different that it must be dismissed immediately.
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First get the wheels round before even thinking of adding a mirror with plush dice. As far as books are concerned there is still enough to add (make work) to make them
as good as a properly typeset pbook before trying to achieve
better.