Emily K's blog

Okay everyone, attached is a list of vignettes that our group has collected that we would like to display for the installation project. Feel free to add others, via comments or whatever and by the end of this week (Friday) I will email them to Dr. Blakesley as a word document.

While reading "Ebooks and the Threat from 'internal constituencies,'" I was surprised to see audible books in the same category as electronic media. Or rather, I was not surprised that they were linked in that way, but rather that I had never thought of it that way. Books on tape are not something we have spoken about much in this class, but I can say they are an electronic means of reading I have delved into quite enthusiastically in the past.

I was surprisingly intrigued by Noam Cohen's "Blurring the Line Between Apps and Books" article. The debate of writer's vs programmers could, I imagine, be a serious discussion over the next many years, especially with the changing of the novel. Stephen Elliot had a good point about the creation of an App instead of an ebook, instead of a printed book, a point which I would like to explore in this short blog post.

This might be sort of last moment, but I realized that the scope of my individual project was too big and I think I am going to simplify it, while still keeping many of my original ideas in place.

Taking Aliki's How A Book Is Made, I want to create an updated version for ebook publishing. While some of the steps would be similar, such as an author writing, the entire process, especially the creative process is changed.

At the beginning of Chapter 14, Thompson makes an interesting statement, one which has been rumored for years (at least since I've been in college) and one which has often been attempted within various classes. The "bookless campus." It's an interesting idea, one which goes hand in hand with the quiet revolution Thompson mentions in Chapter 15.