Following our major updates of last year – the user API, bookreader and integration of QR codes and short URLs bridging the physical/digital divide – we’ve been concentrating on using bookleteer in our own projects like Agencies of Engagement, Material Conditions, Professor Starling’s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition and Pallion Ideas Exchange, helping others create their own eBooks [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ideas'
What’s next in bookleteer’s evolution?
May 29th, 2012 No Comments
Tags: community · crowdfunding · feedback · ideas · new features · ppod · print on demand · sharing · updates
DOG EAR: The Bookmark Zine
March 13th, 2012 No Comments
A very clever idea, this. DOG EAR is a magazine in the form of a concertina bookmark, with ten slim pages of writing and illustration selected from online contributions. It’s available for free from independent bookshops and libraries (cunningly hidden between the pages of books to perk up surprised readers, I like to imagine). I [...]
Tags: bookleteer · drawing · ideas · inspiration · writing · zines
Jonathan Franzen vs The ebook
February 1st, 2012 No Comments
On Monday, the Guardian published an article in which the novelist Jonathan Franzen condemned ebooks, warning that they have a negative effect on literature, and may actually be damaging to society. Whilst I’m inclined to agree with his statements about the nature of physical books, that they are permanent and reassuring tangible objects – monuments [...]
Tags: creative process · eBooks · ideas · technology · writing
Being 18 in the past and today by Katrina Siliprandi
November 29th, 2011 No Comments
Being 18 in the past and today: using Bookleteer for a museum-based project with young people by Katrina Siliprandi Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service Young people working on ‘Project 18’ carried out and recorded 39 interviews in people’s homes, at Norwich Castle museum and in residential care homes. They amalgamated quotes from these interviews with [...]
Tags: bookleteering · community · feedback · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · libraries · tangible souvenirs
The QR Code Enigma
November 22nd, 2011 No Comments
At a digital agency’s briefing last week, focusing on ‘New Tools’ for publishing, part of the talk was centered around the current use of QR Codes and their implications. Whilst studies seem to show they are largely unknown and underused (and often when they are, employed for gimmicky or lazy motives) there’s certainly some interesting [...]
Tags: ideas · inspiring uses · qr code · storycube cairn · StoryCubes
Mind, Pen, Page
November 7th, 2011 No Comments
My last few posts have concentrated on the different effects of various mediums on readers, their output if you like, but, triggered by this eloquent article championing pen on paper featured recently in The New York Review of Books, I’ve been thinking about the effects of various methods of input on writers and their work. [...]
Tags: creative process · creativity · handmade · ideas · notebook · technology · writing
Narrative Immersion
October 27th, 2011 1 Comment
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 [...]
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
Business Cubes?
October 3rd, 2011 No Comments
Whilst perusing the stalls at the TENT London design show a few weeks back, I was reminded of the importance of exhibitors’ business cards and informational flyers, especially when there’s a vast amount of finely crafted aesthetics and innovation competing for the attention of visitors, and potential investors or collaborators. The ability for visitors at [...]
Tags: design · ideas · StoryCubes
You have been invited to…
March 9th, 2011 1 Comment
I was watching my 12 year old cousin plan out her party invites to her 13th birthday party, as I remembered using the same method when I was younger, using Publisher or making them by hand. As I watched her I realised how much more she could do with her invitations by creating them on [...]
Tags: bookleteer · bookleteering · eBooks · ideas · invitations · suggestions
Store your recipes…
March 3rd, 2011 No Comments
Coming from a family that has endless recipes and being expected to know most of them, I have trouble remembering what goes into which dish. The vast amount of ingredients that goes into Indian food can be quite mind boggling! I now understand the need for recipe books! Not the ones already filled with scrumptious [...]
Tags: bookleteer · ideas · recipes · suggestions
Case Study – Niharika Hariharan
September 22nd, 2010 2 Comments
Last week I presented Gillian Cowell‘s independent eBook projects and also started with a very simple early categorisation for how people design and use eBooks – publishing and capturing. This week’s case study also deals with the work of an independent researcher and self-described “story teller, explorer, wanderer” – Niharika Hariharan. I contacted Niharika on [...]
Tags: eBooks · examples · experiments · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning · StoryCubes
Case Study – Gillian Cowell
September 15th, 2010 2 Comments
This week’s eBook case study involves the work of researcher and community education worker Gillian Cowell. Gillian first encountered the eBooks online while doing research for her masters degree. She was interested in finding online tools help her to “capture data in a more interesting way for local people.” She was also hoping to turn [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · community · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · StoryCubes
