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Originally Posted by tomfyhr
Do you have any suggestions for how e-books can be made more interactive and enganging, to possibly encourage people to read fictional och non-fictional literature? Nowadays e-books are usually only digital conversions of physical books.
Thank you in advance for the answer!
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Anyone who has watched a child play on a tablet knows that this content already exists. though It isn't often called a book. It may be called a webpage or a game or a video or simply interactive multimedia. And it has its place. But please, not on my e-ink reader. I just want to read.
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
Hyperlinks, glossaries, character biographies, photo galleries, rich metadata, all those improves the e-text at no cost comparing to a physical book.
Sadly we are burdened with the 90s standards like EPUB that does not allow many of those.
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On the contrary, epub and other formats allow many of these things. The reason why they are not often used in an ebook is that in most cases they do not improve the text but distract from it. The "books" that are suitable for this are much better packaged as a multimedia package for a tablet or even a computer. I don't want the world wide web on my ereader. I just want to read.