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Originally Posted by pittendrigh
It's interesting how some minds are reactive and some are more inquiring and inclusive.
Sure. For fiction there is no need for multi-media. But Harry gave the answer with bird identification. How about how to become a building contractor? You can't teach that in a 15 minute you-tube tutorial. You need a book, and for that subject characters on a white background doesn't work.
Instructional how-to-to-it books cry out for multi-media and it isn't happening yet. Right now open source e-readers are the bottle neck. It's becoming clearer to me by the moment web browsers are a better way to go.
Someone above said "that's not a book that's a web site!" Yes. Sort of. But it's both. I already have website software that looks and acts like a book. I can use it to show black characters on a white background only. I can also add multi-media website like stuff to it at will. That's not useful for fiction but it is VERY useful for other genres.
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A book is something one reads. Yes, some books do have links to websites. For the most part the links are totally useless unless one is reading on a computer.
As go "ereaders are not good or whatever you said about them" have you actually looked at one? Also why are there over a million kindle unlimited subscribers?
Now I will agree and disagree with you on some books do not make good ebooks. Cross stitch books come to mind. But they also do not make good web pages either.
This is due to needing to be able to keep track of where you are on the pattern.
Now as to your boat building, yes with the correct illustration an ebook or paper book would work. Videos are not helpful to everyone.
This old house has plans every month for something in their magazine. That is easy enough to follow.
Now if you want to get creative and make web pages, go for it. But do not call them books.
Oh and on birds, Audubon has a very nice app that one can use offline.
The big thing is that if I want a video on something I go to YouTube. If I want a book on something I generally go to Amazon. If I want a website, I Google whatever I need.
Though I am curious as to what one could do to make say "A tale of two cities" interactive.