How the Kindle will change the world.
The Death of Paper?
– March 23, 2009
How the Kindle will change the world.
About the Author
Richard Clark (Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief) has spent his entire life writing, reading, listening, and playing. He has a Bachelors in Theology from the Baptist College of Florida and has a Master of Arts in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Louisville, KY where he is the classroom technology manager at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to writing at Christ and Pop Culture, he is also a staff writer for Kill Screen Magazine's website and has written for various other outlets such as Paste, Gamasutra, and Collide.
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My favourite part was: “In a world where we do most of our serious reading on screens, books may again thrive as expressions of craft and design.” This is my honest hope.
Book design, currently, posits books (even hardcovers) as disposable affairs. Almost entirely absent from the market are the amazing works of binding and design that were commonplace when books were special. A friend who traffics in antiquarian circles has gifted me several volumes from more than a century ago and these things, though perhaps not works I would choose to indulge on a Saturday afternoon while sipping a steaming, hot mocha, are still visual, tactile wonders.
Occasionally, I’ll run into well-designed books today and those are a treasure. Chip Kidd’s design for Murakami’s Wind-Up bird Chronicle struck a chord in me. As well, DC/Vertigo’s recent four volume set, The Absolute Sandman is presented in a gorgeous, daunting design that truly adds to the work.
So far as the Kindle goes, other than a UI that could be less clumsy, the experience of actually reading a book is as seamless as, well, reading a book. Until one gets interrupted with the need to look up a word or jot down a thought, the device itself fades from conscious note. The fact is: reading on Kindle may actually be easier than read on paper.
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