Three Vooks for iPad Reviewed
1. Promises, by Jude Deveraux Video + Book = Vook. But does it equal an advance in storytelling. I’ll be straight with you — no one wants to see interactive forms of fiction succeed more than I do. So if there’s something good to say about technology applied to storytelling, I’m going to find it. Did I find anything good at the Vook store? Let’s start with my first Vook. I purchased Promises several months ago to read on my iPod Touch. It’s an interesting idea, but the application was buggy and the platform too small to do it justice. This week I updated the app and loaded it on…
Why Do I Want an iPad?
Turning a page on the iPad on Flickr – Photo Sharing! I have resisted until now, but I broke down today and ordered one. Why? I know it’s Thursday, but I don’t have thirteen reasons. We’ll have to cut this Thursday’s Thirteen post down to a Thursday 3. 1) Amazon just released some of the most useful interactive e-books I’ve seen. The cool thing is that the Amazon books weren’t made for Kindles, but to run on the Kindle app for Apple devices like iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. They started by offering 13 Titles. It took a couple of days to get past the fact that my iPod didn’t…
Thirteen Things about Reading E
John Dewey on educative experiences on Flickr – Photo Sharing! 1. I can take my library on vacation. 2. There’s no space for one more book in my house. 3. My house doesn’t come with a search feature to tell me which room, which pile, which box, which shelf holds the book I’ve spent three hours looking for. 4. Paper books don’t come with a search feature to help me find a particular line. 5. Paper books don’t come with a search feature that searches all my notes and bookmarks. 6. My iPod Touch can hold several hundred books and fit them in my pocket. My pocket can’t. 7. I…