In This Episode:
This week we are joined by special guest, Connor Mason, as we continue our series inspired by stock iOS apps. This time around we tackle eBooks and discuss what they mean for the future of reading and physical books.
Connor questions how eBooks differentiate themselves from physical books. Bryan has us contemplate whether digital books are effective for learning, while Sean ponders the future of the library in a digital world. Sam wraps things up by discussing the challenges engineers and developers face when translating ink on a page into pixels on a screen. This episode, like War and Peace, is a doozie.
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Show Notes & Links:
Links to what we talked about, and follow-up info we dug up after we recorded.
Intro
- Connor Mason on Twitter: @conmas
- Punchkick Interactive Inc.
- Ohio State football revelers set fires, tear down goal post
Correction: 89 Fires, not 69 - VIDEO: Car being set on fire
Connor: The Growth and Evolution of eBooks (Starts at 2:04)
- BOOK: Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- INFOGRAPHIC: Past, Present, and Future of Email
- Share passages from iBooks
- United States Department of Justic classification of SPAM
- Frozen: The Cinestory
- PODCAST: Reply All #3: We Know What You Did
- Kindle Paperwhite — Pay $20 for no “Special Offers” a.k.a. Ads
- Apple’s iBooks Author
- eBooks as Native Apps vs. Web Apps
- Dynamically Update Your Ebooks with JavaScript
- EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s CarPlay for Automakers
- EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s iOS 8 in Context
- The New York Times’ Snowfall
- Comparison of eBook Formats
- The Internet vs. The Printing Press
- Publishers love them paywalls
- The ridiculous audiophile thing Sean was trying to think of, but couldn’t because why would anyone dedicate time to this?
- Ogg-Vorbis or FLAC?
- Computer or Fridge?
Bryan: eBooks vs. Physical Books (Starts at 16:29)
- How problematic is eReading?
- The problems of eReading Revisited
- Do eBooks impair memory?
- VINE: Turning to the exact page the teacher asks (NSFW)
- This is your brain on eBooks
- The Reading Brain in the Digital Age
- Those tech books with animals on them
- Charles Dickens
- Samuel Beckett
- Waiting for Godot
- John Siracusa’s OS X Reviews
- Cars:Horses :: eBooks:BookBooks
- Are eBooks worse for kids than paper books?
Sean: The Library’s Role in the Internet Age (Starts at 24:45)
- OverDrive
- Libraries finding relevance
- eBook Subscriptions
- Project Gutenberg
- Kindle Unlimited
- The Emotional Design of the Mixtape
- Nook: Lend eBooks to friends, sorta
- A handy dandy shoehorn
- Xbox One DRM Policy Reversal
- VIDEO: PlayStation 4 Share Play
Sam: Should eBooks be enhanced or just the same? (Starts at 33:26)
- Co-reading and eBooks
- PlayCollective: Studying children, one kid at a time
- Liberio: Simple eBook creation
- Content is King
- EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s iOS 8 in Context
- EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s CarPlay for Automakers
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
- The Wonderful S-Curve
- Reading Disruption
- How I’d Start (Restart) a Blog If I Were to Begin Today
Outro (Starts at 46:10)
Join us next week:
Episode 009: Writing, with John Saddington
We have a real deep conversation about life, death, and writing with John Saddington, the sole creator of the distraction-free writing and blogging app Desk. It was hand-picked by Apple for their Best Apps of 2014.
Download Desk from the Mac App Store.