Designing for digital reading /

• Main Authors: Pearson, Jennifer, 1984- (Author), Buchanan, George, 1969- (Author), Thimbleby, Harold, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [San Rafael, California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2014]
• Series: Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ; #29.
• Subjects: Reading.; Reading > Research.; Digital reading.; Metaphor.; Writing > Handbooks.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.; reading; active reading; documents; eReaders; annotation; bookmarking; note-taking; indexing; books; digital libraries; Electronic books.
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Reading is a complex human activity that has evolved, and co-evolved, with technology over thousands of years. Mass printing in the fifteenth century firmly established what we know as the modern book, with its physical format of covers and paper pages, and now-standard features such as page numbers...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Figure credits.
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 Outline of this book
• 1.2 Who should read this book?
• 2. Reading through the ages
• 2.1 A brief history of reading
• 2.1.1 Scribes and scholars
• 2.1.2 Mechanical printing
• 2.1.3 Electronic printing
• 2.1.4 Evolution for the reader
• 2.1.5 Images and figures
• 2.2 From print to digital reading
• 2.2.1 The era of digital publication
• 2.2.2 Hypertext and online reading
• 2.2.3 Ereaders and ebooks
• 2.2.4 Digital rights management
• 2.3 The state of the art
• 2.3.1 The visual book metaphor
• 2.3.2 Page display
• 2.3.3 Realistic book software
• 2.3.4 The affordances of paper project
• 2.3.5 Augmented reading hardware
• 2.4 Future developments
• 2.5 Summary.
• 3. Key concepts
• 3.1 Reading
• 3.1.1 Active reading
• 3.1.2 Reading in conjunction with writing
• 3.1.3 On-screen reading
• 3.1.4 Reading and cognition
• 3.2 Lightweight interaction
• 3.2.1 Paper versus digital
• 3.3 Cognition and the user
• 3.3.1 Ready-to-hand and present-at-hand
• 3.3.2 Invisible computers
• 3.3.3 Flow
• 3.3.4 Distraction
• 3.3.5 Affordance
• 3.3.6 Metaphors
• 3.4 Summary.
• 4. Lightweight interactions
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Placeholders
• 4.2.1 Background
• 4.2.2 Lightweight placeholders
• 4.2.3 Lightweight properties
• 4.3 Annotations
• 4.3.1 Background
• 4.3.2 Lightweight annotations
• 4.3.3 Lightweight properties
• 4.4 Note-taking
• 4.4.1 Background
• 4.4.2 Lightweight note-taking
• 4.4.3 Lightweight properties
• 4.5 Visual indexinG
• 4.5.1 Background
• 4.5.2 Current methods
• 4.5.3 Lightweight indexing
• 4.5.4 Lightweight properties.
• 5. Improving digital reading
• 5.1 Overview
• 5.2 Running themes
• 5.2.1 Additional space
• 5.2.2 Visual language
• 5.2.3 Immediacy of access
• 5.2.4 Digital technologies
• 5.2.5 Designing for appropriation
• 5.2.6 Completeness of metaphors
• 5.3 The book metaphor
• 5.4 Electronic documents
• 5.5 Concluding remarks.