Re Experiencing The Book

peter brantley internet archive san francisco ca

“ ... [N]one of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. ‘That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,’ says a person who was there.”

- “From Major to Minor,” The Economist, Jan 10 08

leap into the future (put aside the present)

“The Rocket blasts off”, Phil Gyford, Flickr

“a book is a machine to think with.”

-‐ I. A. Richards, -‐ Principles of Literary Criticism -‐ 1924

1. inevitable that most analogue books will be transformed into digital books

2. current books translated into digital (digital is seen as a “colleague” of print)

3. we are beginning to re-‐imagine books – born digital in their new manifestations.

It is of this I will speak ... (a larger transformation in publishing)

2 archetypal forms of digital books:

  Downloadable “ebooks” (Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader)

  Networked books (Shortcovers, Google Editions)

digital books are increasingly hybrid books: local (“cached”) -‐-‐ tethered to the network.

“Network Operations Center at NPR”, Collapse the Light, Flickr

In computer science – stateful |vs| stateless

the digital book beckons toward statefulness. it’s keeping place –

across the open web, ereader, mobile. remembering us, remembering itself.

with digital editions

we walk away from owning books migrating to the licensing of books (libraries: the borrowing of books)

first sale:

giving books to friends and family the privacy of the books we read borrowing books from libraries

we may lose these things as we gain others.

the question for all of us who care about books –

how will we experience the story? the book, providing an education.

what is the value of an ephemeral book? what is it that we truly value, in a book?

“hand°i°craft°Art”, Vali..., Flickr

what is important about books is not really the books themselves but the people who make and read them

(this has always been.)

books |center | community

  annotations   reading lists

  recommendations   critiques

networks scale the conversation.

we are moving away from books /as/ objects, and toward books as networked experiences.

“books strung up by their spines, and the words that fell out of them”, glitter feet, Flickr

conversations   books  music  movies

an environment where readers become engaged with each other

the book is not a static thing, anymore – not a long sequence of words, pictures.

“words”, ceoln, Flickr

books are responsive

– interactively –

  shared   experienced   re-‐created

the narrative (its education) – \_ is turning into a scaffolding \_ to facilitate an environment \_ into which one inserts oneself \_ as a participant – as a reader.

how we read – what we need (in order to read)

are changing

in the minds of our youth

iPhone and the appeal of “touching” content.

“Hold Hands”, wickenden, Flickr

peter collingridge, apt studio

“[I]t combines text, audio and video. You can read the book, watch a video of [Nick] Cave reading the book and add “soundscapes”, music composed by him — or all three at the same time.”

-‐ London Evening Standard, 14.09.09

we will expect to:

  touch the pianos   feel the strings vibrate   hear the Variations   listen to a concert

“Small objects travel further and travel faster -‐ their meaning adapting to the ever-‐changing context. Every step an opportunity. ”

-‐-‐ Jan Chipchase, “Future Perfect”

mobile phones bring the world into our lives

a new generation of applications as phones become hosts for services –

not devices (like books)

  location (GPS)   accelerometer   compass   video camera   network

eyes, ears, mouth, and skin

mobile as my story teller, a new kind of companion

the narrative and the reader are integrating themselves –

combining people and presence – bringing the story into the place.

 mobile,   interactive, and   shared

new layers of information overlain on the world we see, feel, and hear

Layar, demostración en la calle “... Layar es una aplicación que mediante la cámara y el GPS añade una capa de información por encima de la realidad, la tan soñada realidad aumentada. Ya hablamos de Layar y comparamos con Wikitude.

Esta semana he hecho un vídeo con Layar mientras caminaba por el centro de Barcelona. Después de usarlo y juguetear, para hacer el video, me ha parecido un bluf. La aplicación es más espectacular que funcional, Google Maps es más útil. ”

QR code stencils and spray chalk – embedding the network into the world.

one can live within a story insert oneself with others

build the narrative by being within it

bring the textbook and its invitation to learn into people’s hands

imagine this! for science, for history, for art.

“It's not as printers who use bits rather than ink. It's as translators between the human stories and the machines who have to take those stories, integrate them into a web of linked data, and make it possible for humans to ask questions, dream dreams, and tell new stories.”

-‐ John Wilbanks, “Story Time”, 02.09.09

students learning from the story that they help to tell

this is the new education

“Como forjamos al hierro forjaremos días nuevos.”

-‐ Regino Pedroso, "Mañana"

peter brantley

co-‐founder, open books alliance director, bookserver project

internet archive the presidio, san francisco, ca

@naypinya (twitter) [email protected]

Re Experiencing The Book

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