I love the old paper ... touch it. Can you feel it? It feels different. Smells different. " ( Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard Library)
We tend to say that the book is analog and digital e-book, the book is physical and e-book virtual, that the book is a rigid and flexible e-book. I like, out of sheer intellectual and spiritual health and animal-bore, reverse play and occasionally the terms, and that's what I propose in this Sunday afternoon.
the words of Fernando RodrÃguez de la Flor in Super Biblioclasmo there late in this era of printing a melancholy physicality of the book as reading material support, for which the homo libri feel the absence of specific touch and smell of the printed page when faced with the reading of the electronic word on the screen. And, as pointed Mr. Piscitelli a very recent article where he reviews the scholars in recent decades we have discovered that physicality, the materiality of the act of reading is part of our reading. As stated from the academy Anglo, every act of reading is an act of embodiment, in which body, mind and object interact to perform the read operation. It is therefore no trivial matter change-not-to the total absence of e-book smell, or touch, or the different way to turn the page, ie changing screens. Two seemingly unconnected events last year highlighted these aspects. The first is a recent book Marchamalo Jesus, who has returned to raise this nostalgia in English blogger scene in recent months: the book is called Playing books, and obviously not available digitally, and when it is the paradox of form and content will result in a beautiful virtual ode to support that gave it birth. The second is the emergence of iBooks, the Book of software for Apple iPad tablet embobeció their advertising and evidence of its stores for a fact that had little to do with the content of the books: the possibility turn the pages with your finger , in a display of virtual design. While the company has not yet provided apple big news in terms of new publishing techniques are concerned-but leaves a system with other already scheduled its possibilities, "yes thought when designing your program reading that if it was cloned into reading epub format in the traditional manner, although some improvements including search, would have to clone not only the typography and layout in hand, but also the act learned and used in nearly twenty centuries - with the birth of the codex, to pass a sheet. Perhaps the collective unconscious could appreciate and thank this reunion with family, it becomes unnecessary novelty, in principle, in an environment that seeks to challenge the traditional technology. But with it the iPad, conservative on this and other aspects, we find it so close because you can touch and that touch can turn the pages of a book. It seems a joke, say some, that's what we already have the books. But it is not. The analog-digital disguises to challenge our confidence and regain some of our emotional and physical habits of reading. Read digital, analogue. A step back perhaps to bring the public, increasingly, to other innovations.
Paradox and cross-attitudes can merge without merging, even more. If we look at the meanings of digital , which converges with digits, ie, not just number but also as a finger - that's why we have fingers? - We find that play should be the main activity of our digital readout, as the world of tech gadgets invites us to do on the new screens, these new geographies fingerprints. By this token, the book has also been extremely digital, touch the books since it becomes an emblem of that nostalgia for the book as a reading material. Where is analog, then? If I convert the analog analogy, it is still on the bridge we are trying to create between one medium or another, between book and screen, between their spatial geography and the routes we do on both. Unfortunately for apocalyptic and integrated, there is a space contact in which both supports dialogue, even in the form spectacularly mixed and strangely monstrous libroides , and in that space between the rigidity of the book as a format called fade to the softness of their booklets printed before bound, or the vaunted flexibility text in e-book easily gets test if we fall or hit a iPad. This irony maliciously misappropriated only meant to show that not everything is an absolute for each of the supports and the flexibility given to the electronic text in its ability to change and meet with other related texts, that is, not without its origin in the conference Renaissance books in platitudes manuals Baroque or the exercise of art memory for centuries was reflected in the composition of great literature which sought the ability to be accessed randomly, ie, digitally, and whose techniques, curiously, were based on the construction of analogies. The study and reflection on these facts should open paths of transition and use of new media, as well as specific tasks to appropriate traditional. Touching
e-books. View. Smell (and someone invented primarily as a fragrant band to include our e-book). In the end, read, ie dream about. But we only mental immersion in history thanks to gestures that are accurate. That is the challenge for the new medium: the creation of a series of habits useful and meaningful, functional, then allow us to feel nostalgia for our digital tablet thanks to the use and satisfaction that we have produced a reading experience (distinctly flexible , digital, virtual). Spend
page seems prosaic as a reading to the text of Tolstoy, for example, but it is so significant and need to know that no such act can not go this story about a book. Such a gesture is revealed now as a great demand for the traditional reading, but also, no doubt, as demand for a possible future forking possible readings.
and leave a video to go somewhat further: not only expects us to touch the books and act on them with the touch, but also with his eyes. Recent technologies promise to enable some words (their associations with links) with a single flash, with a slight gesture of attention of our iris. Is it more sensual for a reading? Who would not select the description of Emma Bovary in a blink of an eye, and then follow, in the traditional manner, touching on reading the text of Flaubert?
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