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Apr 13, 2010, 08:32 AM
 
I dunno. Mostly, all I can think is "neat, but what's the point?"
     
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Apr 13, 2010, 08:34 AM
 
If you have to ask, you don't get it.

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Apr 13, 2010, 10:07 AM
 
Bed time stories will never be the same.
     
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Apr 13, 2010, 10:53 AM
 
oh, I get it ... I just don't see how it's anything more than a gimmick.
     
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Pretty awesome.

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Apr 13, 2010, 11:07 AM
 
Originally Posted by Wiskedjak View Post
oh, I get it ... I just don't see how it's anything more than a gimmick.
Do you have children? I think kids would love it.
     
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Apr 13, 2010, 08:23 PM
 
How is it a gimmick if it makes children more likely to be interested in reading.
     
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Apr 13, 2010, 10:54 PM
 
Looks kinda violent to me...but maybe that's just the video.
     
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Apr 13, 2010, 10:55 PM
 
wow... thats actually so cool
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Apr 13, 2010, 10:56 PM
 
Originally Posted by Atheist View Post
Do you have children? I think kids would love it.
I have no doubt kids would love it. I'm just imagining my 3yr-old shaking my $500+ iPad.
     
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Apr 13, 2010, 10:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by moonmonkey View Post
How is it a gimmick if it makes children more likely to be interested in reading.
IMO, that's the job of the parent and the author. My 8yr-old loves to read, despite not having had access to this app.
     
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Apr 13, 2010, 11:50 PM
 
If you have to wonder whether or not this is cool, than reading for you is vastly different than reading for me.

I don't read to have a morph of a reading experience and a video game or a youtube video interspersed throughout my reading experience. I read to become part of the story, to lose myself within the words, and to transport myself through time/history/whatever to become one with the story. That all happens in my mind through my interpretation of the written word.

Will the "reading" experience ever change? Perhaps. But I think that what is happening with the Alice in Wonderland example isn't quite a "book" any longer. It's something else. Something better? Something worse? Time will tell.

But I personally don't "read" to interact with the story in any other sense than the written word. Perhaps I'm behind the times and slow to adapt. We'll see.

BTW, take your iPad out in the middle of the sunny afternoon and try to read. Ain't gonna happen. I tried it just this weekend. Didn't work so well.

What did work well is reading indoors, reading at night, listening to music, watching Firefly episodes, checking email (although the hotmail sync isn't syncing worth a crap), viewing webpages, etc.

I'm a Kindle nut... that won't change based upon the DX and the iPad. But I'm also enjoying my iPad and am using the Kindle app on it and love it. If I could only have one device to read with it would be the Kindle. I should end with a postscript that I don't think I've looked at my Kindle since I received my iPad on launch day. But it's still a better all reading experience for me. I also like the Kindle app better than the iBook app - it looks as if there is a ton of wasted space in the margins of the iBook app.

So... my two cents.
     
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Apr 14, 2010, 01:32 AM
 
In other news, there's this silly box called television.

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Apr 14, 2010, 07:46 AM
 
Yeah, the idiot box...

Don't get me wrong - the ipad is col, but it's not The Gutenberg Bible.
     
   
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