Reading and writing the electronic book
Developments over the last 20 years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with a gloss over the history of electronic books, including the social and technical forces that have shaped their development. The focus then shifts to read...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
c2010.
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services (Online),
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| Online Access: | Abstract with links to full text |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Generation 1: a new world of hypermedia
- Generation 2: eBook hardware arrives
- Generation 3: ePaper and the quiet revolution
- This book
- 2. Reading
- Reading
- Assumptions about reading
- Purposes of reading
- Types of reading
- Layout, typography, and legibility
- Studies of the effect of layout on readers' performance
- Reading hardware and display technologies
- 3. Interaction
- Annotation
- Representing annotations
- Anatomy of an annotation
- Linking
- Functions of annotation
- Status and value of annotations
- Navigation
- Three navigation scenarios
- Moving
- Orienting
- Clipping
- Bookmarking
- Hardware for interacting with eBooks
- Hardware that supports navigation
- Pen-based interaction
- Essential but insufficient
- 4. Reading as a social activity
- Reading together
- Shared focus
- Collaborative search and reference following
- Reading together as an informal act
- Peer-to-peer sharing
- Sharing the artifacts of reading
- Reading to know what other people know
- Sharing annotations
- Aggregating annotations: the wisdom of crowds
- Sharing encountered information
- Information brokering
- Sharing and recommending books
- 5. Studying reading
- Types of studies
- Quantitative/laboratory studies
- Performance metrics for reading
- Eye-tracking
- Field studies
- Interview studies
- Diary studies
- Observational studies
- Surveys and questionnaires
- Instrumenting software
- Performing a field study of reading
- Research questions and study design
- Finding participants
- Developing an interview script
- Preparing materials
- In the field
- Data analysis
- 6. Content: markup and genres
- Content representation
- Page description languages
- Markup languages
- Packaging files
- Accessibility
- Digital rights management
- DRM technologies
- DRM in use
- Standards efforts
- Content preparation
- Paper genres reborn
- eNewspapers
- eMagazines
- eTextbooks and course packs
- Electronic journals
- New digital genres
- eBooks and libraries
- A pilot eBook program in a public library
- eBook experiences in other libraries
- Sustainability and digital preservation
- 7. Beyond the book
- Beyond paper capabilities
- Domain- and practice-specific capabilities
- Within-book search
- Portable personal libraries and collection-level functionality
- Search at the collection level
- Re-encountering
- Gathering and triage
- Supporting browsing with computed visualizations
- Metadata for personal digital libraries
- Conclusion
- References
- Author biography.