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Originally Posted by Hitch
A document that's the transcriptions of some guy's phone calls to politicians? How's that a book?
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I think you were looking for a
book of transcriptions.
I could
potentially see some usage for EPUB3 in that situation. There are a few podcasts I listen to which provide transcriptions of episodes in HTML/EPUB form.
But for the most part I would say people would prefer EITHER/OR:
- Those who just download the audio files and listen to the ~30 minute episode
- Those who just read the transcripts.
I would say there isn't much overlap in the people who would want both at the same time. (I wouldn't want that bloated audio-EPUB3 clogging up tons of space on my device.)
Side Note: I did work on a book about JFK which included some transcriptions of important court cases. Perhaps having the actual recorded audio attached might be helpful there too as a step up from a purely text-based book.
Side Note #2: The only other few cases I could think of off the top of my head are:
- Children's books (sing-along style where they highlight as it talks)
- Music books (it might be nice to be able to hear a song instead of just seeing purely written lyrics/notes).
- Or there are some fantasy books where authors include songs... I personally have zero idea how the author intended it to sound... and mostly just skim right past those sections.
- MAYBE some foreign-language books where you might want to hear a native speak
Although some of this might be better implemented with the
EPUB3 CSS3 Speech stuff.
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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
No re-download al all. I do not call it "magic", I call it "javascript".
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Side Note: Now, I haven't looked specifically at any of fbrzvnrnd's EPUB3 examples yet, but I fear for accessibility in a lot of these Javascript-heavy environments. For example, a growing trend I see is stuff like news websites that use Javascript to load the entire articles with zero fallback, or hiding things behind a "See More" which
requires Javascript to load the rest of the article... Makes me want to absolutely pull my hair out.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Hopscotch is maybe an example of "true" literature that would benefit from some level of interactivity. But it is an "experimental" work nevertheless, and easily done in ePub 2.
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Interesting... thanks for the example.