Tag: Books and Technology

The art of broken Kindle screens

The book is called “56 Broken Kindle Screens” and is the brainchild of digitial artist Sebastian Schmieg in collaboration with Silvio Lorusso. It is a  compilation of found images depicting broken Kindle screens.“56 Broken Kindle Screens” "takes as its starting point the peculiar aesthetic of broken E Ink displays and serves as an examination into the reading device's materiality. As the screens break, they become collages composed of different pages, cover illustrations and interface elements."Of course, the book is available as a print on demand title only and is selling for under $5.Video of how the book appears on the Kindle: 56 Broken Kindle...

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E-readers: "Our ticket back to widespread smarts?"

 While I am not so sure that e-readers are "our ticket back" to a more literate-leaning society it does seem that the small percentage of Americans (28%) that own one seem to be reading more.Created by: www.OnlineTeachingDegree.comand while we are on the topic - check out this bus that was created by the ad agency TDA Boulder for Colorado's non-profit ACE Scholarships.Should we be providing free e-readers to all high-school students?

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Read it or lose it! A Disappearing Anthology

“Books are very patient objects. We buy them, and then they wait for us to read them. Days, months, even years. That’s OK for books, but not for new authors. If people don’t read their first books. They’ll never make it to a second.”Here's the problem:Physical books are not the only ones that are in danger these days. New Latin American authors are threatened as well. In the last 20 years the book sales from new Latin-American writers have decreased by a total of 37%. These new authors, unlike the established and famous ones, suffer every second that their books...

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Cooking up the future in the ‘Library Test Kitchen’

 The Neo-Carrel“What if you thought seriously about the library as a laboratory, as a place where people do things, where they make things?”says Jeffrey Schnapp. The class is called "The Library Test Kitchen." It is taught by Schnapp and offered through the  Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University. During the class "ideas flew like cream pies at a food fight" and before the semester was out some of the ideas were developed into student projects. Pictured above is the Neo-Carrel, a "study chair with a raised platform in front that doubles as a laptop stand and a comfortable...

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Fanado: The LongPen Still Lives

It was at BEA 5 years ago that Margret Atwood and company unleashed the LongPen in America. It was hailed as "the world's first real time, pen and ink long-distance autographing device" which produces "legally valid" signatures.It was to be the 21st century version of the autopen. It was to revolutionize and revitalize the author reading experience which by then was a much less common event in bookstores around the country.  "I can't wait to see how this one plays out" was how I ended my post on the initial American release of the LongPen in June of 2007,  How...

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