Needed: Something ‘extra’ in e-books

October 31, 2004 | 9:31 pm

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The Hyperliterature Exchange (found via Tenebris): “Somehow, though, a novel on a computer screen seems much less readable than the same novel in book form. In order to challenge the supremacy of print, an e-text needs to offer something extra”…Continue reading this entry…

The TeleRead take: Interbook linking–even from sentence to sentence–is among my own favorite extras. OpenReader would allow this capability.

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