"Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another..."So begins The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce, an interactive digital narrative based on the award-winning animated short film of the same name. Created by Moonbot Studios the app "blurs the line between picture books and animated film" and adds further fuel to the ongoing debate of what constitutes a book, for the app is not based on a book and has yet to be "in print" (a picture book version is...
Book App Review: The Waste Land
Welcome to Book Patrol's inaugural Book App Review. Here we will sample and review apps created exclusively for books or book-related themes.We kick off the series with a look at T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land for the iPad, a joint production of Faber & Faber and Touch Press.What is arguably the greatest poem of the 20th Century is now infused with the bells and whistles of what will or already has become one of the greatest technologies of the young 21st Century.Think of it as a Wikipedia entry on interactive steroids and then some. Not only do you get the...
That Didn’t Take Long: The DIY iPad Book Cover
Looking for an inexpensive book-friendly way to hide and protect you new iPad?Welcome to the iBook.For $10 and a little time you can learn to cover your iPad with a book.Here are the reasons that propelled the creator of iBook:- Didn’t want to drop $40 for Apple’s iPad case- iPad back scratches easily, I hate to rest it naked on the table- I feel like a pretentious bastard using the iPad in public because everyone knows what it is, but few people have one — this helps me disguise it while in use- On a similar note, the iPad feels...
Thomas Edison’s Kindle-iPad Combo
Thomas Edison, beyond his inventions, was the Steve Jobs of his time. He developed innovative consumer applications from contemporary technology and materials and was a master at marketing them. People marveled at his wonders that made day-to-day living easier and more convenient, and hung on every word he had to say about technology and great, game-changing gadgets newly arrived and to come from his factories.Forget the Kindle or Apple's new iPad. The "e" in ebook stands for Edison.In the February 1911 issue of The Cosmopolitan (yes, that Cosmopolitan - long before it was Helen Gurley-Brown'ed into Cosmo) the Wizard of...