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Reading and Writing the Electronic Book (Paperback)
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Reading and Writing the Electronic Book (Paperback)
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
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Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable
speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself.
This book begins with a gloss over the history of electronic books,
including the social and technical forces that have shaped their
development. The focus then shifts to reading and how we interact
with what we read: basic issues such as legibility, annotation, and
navigation are examined as aspects of reading that ebooks inherit
from their print legacy. Because reading is fundamentally
communicative, I also take a closer look at the sociality of
reading: how we read in a group and how we share what we read.
Studies of reading and ebook use are integrated throughout the
book, but Chapter 5 "goes meta" to explore how a researcher might
go about designing his or her own reading-related studies. No book
about ebooks is complete without an explicit discussion of content
preparation, i.e., how the electronic book is written. Hence,
Chapter 6 delves into the underlying representation of ebooks and
efforts to create and apply markup standards to them. This chapter
also examines how print genres have made the journey to digital and
how some emerging digital genres might be realized as ebooks.
Finally, Chapter 7 discusses some beyond-the-book functionality:
how can ebook platforms be transformed into portable personal
libraries? In the end, my hope is that by the time the reader
reaches the end of this book, he or she will feel equipped to
perform the next set of studies, write the next set of articles,
invent new ebook functionality, or simply engage in a heated
argument with the stranger in seat 17C about the future of reading.
Table of Contents: Preface / Figure Credits / Introduction /
Reading / Interaction / Reading as a Social Activity / Studying
Reading / Beyond the Book / References / Author Biography
General
Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG
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Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Series: |
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services |
Release date: |
October 2009 |
First published: |
2010 |
Authors: |
Catherine Marshall
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Dimensions: |
235 x 191mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
274 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-101138-2 |
Languages: |
English
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Subtitles: |
English
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Categories: |
Books >
Computing & IT >
Computer communications & networking >
General
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LSN: |
3-03-101138-4 |
Barcode: |
9783031011382 |
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