One Page Book

[mttbll]

I don’t have a process. You have to take the plunge. It’s easy to talk about the process, but it’s a confrontation. You’re confronting a blank page. It’s like drawing. You stare at a blank canvas and it goes from itself. You can call it a process, but you’re studying where this inspiration comes from.

Sam Shepard (via bbook)

[1pgbk]

The life of a designer who can code.

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Welcome Simpson Magazine.

[ebookporn]

The problems with apps like Byook are they are trumpeted as the next evolution of story telling but always end up being content added to “enhance” the story by people who didn’t write the story in the first place. 

Every jiggle, pan, and fade takes the reader out of the text. It doesn’t bring us closer to the story but seems to constantly get between us and the storyteller.

Enhancing the reading experience should be adding content and meaning not illustrating what the author already described. I am afraid that until more authors learn to code we will have to wait for a truly evolved digital book storytelling experience.

[1pgbk]

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

Douglas Adams 

[1pgbk]

Finished reading Every Book is a Startup last night (in 1hr 40min according to Readmill).

[1pgbk]

Great post from @tinahender: hacks that make a digital book more beautiful and a better reading experience.  

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[readmill]

When it comes to buying and reading ebooks, there’s always the same names at the tip of everyone’s tongue: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple. And for good reason. They have crafted a convenient buying and reading experience for many. A buying and reading experience that rids headaches and makes...

[1pgbk]

[1pgbk]

So I was wrestling with this question of grammar: Hmm, okay, what is like, the most iPhone-y thing there is... what is the essence of this device... the core mechanic... and I decided: it's scrolling.

Robin Sloan

I love him, and I think you will too. If not immediately, then very soon.

[appstatus]

In the meantime I’ve been changing my initial designs for the look of the issue. They looked pretty but they weren’t really optimal for tablets. It’s just a part of the design process when it comes to tablets is that you’ve got to give yourself time to live with the product and really get a feel for what works and what doesn’t.

Letter to Jane: Status

I can't even begin to explain how much this mirrors my own experience with designing layouts and interfaces for the tablet.  

[theartofgooglebooks]

Dirt, foxing, and stray marks turned into links.

From p. 187 of Des Vollständigen Thaler-Cabinets by David Samuel von Madai (1769). 

[1pgbk]

Talk about the return to hypertext fiction.

[1pgbk]

That list I made a while back? Yeah, that makes up about 10% of this list. Compiled by Michael Bhaskar

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Surprised I haven't seen more about this project, especially coming from a powerhouse agency like IDEO.

"As more people consume pages in pixels, IDEO designers wondered why we continue to discover and consume the written word through the old analog, page-turning model. We asked: what happens when the reading experience catches up with new technologies?"

Sounds right up my alley. I can't link to the full text, however, 'cause they got all meta with the topic (so take their solutions with a grain of salt). Click the "continue reading" link here.

[dianakimball]

The only copy protection I need is the fact that tomorrow’s comic doesn’t exist yet and my brain’s the only place that bakes that cookie.

RStevens on Kickstarter explaining why he’s releasing his forthcoming Diesel Sweeties ebook DRM-free. (via dianakimball)