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Originally Posted by pittendrigh
Most in this thread are missing the embedded video point. Video will become increasingly important as book reading habits evolve. Are you reading about Bonobos on the Congo River? A few well-placed video clips would be attractive to me. Embedded video is too big to download and store on a dedicated device. They will need to work more like browsers where video is streamed and not stored.
Dedicated devices as they are do their best to mimic the paper technology experience--which shackles the technology as a whole. Ebooks are more powerful than paper. If and only if they act like browsers.
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Personally I DO NOT want that for fiction stories. One reason I prefer reading fiction to watching movies and TV is that the book allows me to use my imagination rather than being limited to what some script writer, producer and director imagine for a given scene. The fiction book has survived for 4000+ years approximately without being turned into a movie and considering the cost of adding movie type scenes to a fiction book I hope it does not happen.
I also subscribe to Sky & Telescope, Nature, Scientific American and National Geographic and see no need for anything beyond the still photos and diagrams in them to illustrate and clarify the reasonably well written text. I do NOT want my books and magazines turned into the equivalent of Classics Illustrated Comic Books (I think I just badly dated myself with that reference
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