MacGuffin, Short Reads, and Reading Analytics
Question: can data about how books are read in turn influence the way in which books are written? The Guardian (“The new platform luring readers into short fiction”), leads off...
Ebooks and Fonts
Co.Design (“The Kindle Finally Gets Typography That Doesn’t Suck”) had an interesting article that caught my attention, which provides a design-focused, nuanced look at one of the more unnoticed aspects...
Is The $10 Digital Textbook for Real?
Affordable digital textbooks are a hugely important part of the future of education. Campus and Technology (“Developing a $10 Digital Textbook”) had an attention-grabbing story about a fantastic project at...
Thoughts on Kindle Textbook Creator
Earlier this year, Amazon rolled out a beta version of The Kindle Textbook Creator. It’s still too soon to tell exactly what impact this might have upon the digital textbook...
On Reading Books in the Dark
I am an avid bedtime reader, for better or for worse. So this article from the Wall Street Journal, “Does reading in dim light hurt your eyes?” certainly piqued my...
“What If We Put DRM on Chairs?”
DRM CHAIR from Thibault Brevet on Vimeo. (DRM = Digital Rights Management) Chairs and ebooks don’t have a lot in common. But just what if they did? From Escapist Magazine:...
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I run the ThinkLab at the University of Cambridge, and research digital habits, productivity, and wellbeing.
