I focused on how technology can enhance and change our engagement with narratives in a previous post, so I’m going to step back and look at the highly immersive nature of text-based books as a medium. After recently finishing a book and scanning my shelves for my next literary foray, my eyes settled on a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'eBooks'
Narrative Immersion
October 27th, 2011 1 Comment
Tags: augmented · book · eBooks · ideas · technology
Shuffling Narrative
October 20th, 2011 1 Comment
After my previous post speculating on the ways touchscreen devices will change the way readers engage with books and other texts in the future, I recalled an interesting example in the present. The iPhone and iPad ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad‘ e-book app provides an option to re-order the hectic, backwards and forth narrative [...]
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“A Magazine Is An iPad That Does Not Work”
October 18th, 2011 1 Comment
Yesterday I watched a video on YouTube of a child attempting to manipulate a magazine as if it were an iPad. Eh? Bear with me. As expected, the futile motions and the child’s baffled reactions are pretty funny, but it also made me ponder once again how touchscreen devices and future developments in technology will [...]
Tags: augmented · eBooks · electronic · ideas · ipad
New eBook Design!
October 12th, 2011 No Comments
After some tinkering and testing, we’ve just uploaded the new eBook back cover designs to the bookleteer server. Alongside an improved colophon layout, all eBooks generated with bookleteer now automatically create a QR code link as well as a short URL, to the online bookreader version, featured on the bottom left corner of the back [...]
Tags: bookleteer · design · eBooks · inspiring uses · qr code · user guide
Book-Making Workshop at New Cross People’s Library – 10th September
September 7th, 2011 No Comments
This Saturday, the 10th of September, we’ll be running a book-making workshop at the New Cross People’s Library, now reopened after its closure by the council in May, and currently staffed by local volunteers, aided by Bold Vision. We’re asking participants to bring lists and photos of their favourite books, to create a set of [...]
Tags: bookleteer · collaboration · eBooks · events · library · workshop
Diffusion Archive Highlight – City As Material: An Overview
August 3rd, 2011 No Comments
A document of the five City As Material events we ran in London last year, this eBook collects the blog posts penned after each event, a selection of photographs taken, as well as an introduction to the project and our motives for undertaking it. Created in place of an individual eBook for Sonic Geographies, due [...]
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Diffusion Archive Highlight: Expeditions in Paper Science
June 29th, 2011 No Comments
Created at our first Pitch Up & Publish event by Matthew Sheret, co-founder of We Are Words + Pictures, Expeditions in Paper Science is a compilation of blog posts written for his website. Matthew says: “I’ve long been interested in the idea of physicalising web articles, and while an industry has solidified around POD in [...]
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Diffusion Archive Highlight: Ancient Lights, City Shadows
June 17th, 2011 No Comments
A collaborative eBook produced as a result of our City As Material: Skyline event, Ancient Lights, City Shadows features mixed media collected on the day and material we were inspired to create after our wander through the city. Adorning the cover is one of Martin Fidler’s intricate skyline drawings, opposed with an ambiguous photograph of [...]
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Training & Workshops
June 13th, 2011 No Comments
bookleteer – create, share, print, make Pitch up & Publish One day workshops to create and publish booklets and StoryCubes using bookleteer: guiding you from concept to publication and beyond, bring a particular project you want to undertake, or come for an introduction and to experiment. The day will be tailored to your needs so [...]
Tags: alpha club · bookleteer · booklets · Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination · dodolab · eBooks · events · get bookleteering · self publishing tool · Short Run Printing · StoryCubes · The British Museum · The Empty Shops Network · workshop
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Three Essays by Samuel Johnson
June 10th, 2011 No Comments
Selected by writer and journalist Bill Thompson, this eBook compiles three of Samuel Johnson’s essays in a slim, portable format; Rambler 2, pondering the nature of ambition and self-deception, Idler 48, in which he speaks of how we ‘play throughout life with the shadows of business’, and Adventurer 95, exploring the process of writing and [...]
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New feature: bookleteer online bookreader
June 6th, 2011 7 Comments
We’re really excited to announce a major new feature to bookleteer : an online bookreader allowing you to read and share your eBooks online. The bookreader is built in HTML5 and can be opened by standard web browsers – so now your eBooks can also be read on screen on a computer, laptop, smartphone (iPhone/Android [...]
Tags: bookreader · eBooks · help · inspiring uses · updates · user guide
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Beasts and Super-Beasts
June 1st, 2011 No Comments
A collection of 36 short stories by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), each an individual eBook, the tales in Beasts and Super-Beasts deal mainly with “the presence or role of an animal and its relationship to the humans in the narrative, acutely dissecting their foibles and pretensions” (an exquisite summary by Giles there). They’re in a [...]
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Wedding Wheel Invitation
May 17th, 2011 No Comments
Whilst searching for new and unusual publishing methods, I came across something which is definitely inventive in producing invitations, by www.burning-house.com. I have previously blogged about using Bookleteer as an method to produce invites to weddings, birthdays, baby showers and so on. However I came across the ‘DIY wedding invitation wheel’ which I think is a [...]
Tags: DIY · eBooks · invitations · Keepsake · Weddings
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Deep City
May 10th, 2011 No Comments
As part of the City As Material series, after being our special guest for the Underside event and helping to co-ordinate the resulting collaborative eBook, Layered, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino was asked to produce an individual effort. She created Deep City, an attempt to “extract the individual elements we see in cities over and over again, to [...]
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Pick a card, any card…
April 8th, 2011 No Comments
Our former bookleteer blogger, Karen Martin, wrote about the effects of using different types of paper when printing eBooks in a previous post, “Paper Selection“, but having just rediscovered a few examples, I thought I’d share them with you again. Carmen Vela Maldonado created these lovely eBooks by experimenting with different coloured paper and card, [...]
Tags: bookleteer · cut-out · eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · making · paper
