Comments on: ‘Interactive’ fiction comes to the Kindle: Choose Your Own Adventure books

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:36:31 +0000

The blog entry indicates they’re hyperlinked.

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:16:58 +0000

So are the branches linked? PLEASE tell me you’re not supposed to flip through “pages” to find the next correct entry.

By: Flabber

Flabber — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:50:22 +0000

And of course like everything else worth buying from the Kindle store not available if you live in the UK.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:05:42 +0000

I remember reading a “programmed instruction” book like that. You would read a few pages then answer a quiz question and be taken to a new page depending on your answer. This is ideal for computer or Kindle learning as long as the links are live. I have always wondered why text books were not written that way.

By: Yoda47

Yoda47 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:23:19 +0000

Ah yes, I remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books well.

Not a big fan.

Perhaps it’s because I died in every one I read until I picked the last option – the one I really didn’t want to pick.

Or perhaps it’s the awkwardness of spending more time flipping pages than reading. If these come out in an open format, it’d be interesting to re-read them with hypertext links to click, it might make the reading experience flow more smoothly.