How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Sep 13
  

  michael hermreck

  The Wall Street Journal on book's being written for the internet.

  internet collaboration Internet Collaboration

• 29 Apr 13
  

  Robert Purdon

  Books and how they'll change

  reading ebooks Kindle ebook future e-books books

• 21 Apr 13
  

  turtlesrule27
  • the ability to digitally search millions of books instantly will make finding all that information easier yet again.
• 30 Jan 13
  

  Meaghan Darling
  • Nobody will read alone anymore. Reading books will go from being a fundamentally private activity -- a direct exchange between author and reader -- to a community event, with every isolated paragraph the launching pad for a conversation with strangers around the world.
• 26 Oct 12
  

  Stephen Blyth

  Author Steven Johnson raises concerns about the impact that digital text will have on the commitment and concentration of readers.
  
  Wall Street Journal article, 20 April 2009.

  think_know attention e-books reading future-of-books

  • In our always-connected, everything-linked world, we sometimes forget that books are the dark matter of the information universe.
• 06 Jun 12
  

  Samantha Gilham
• 01 May 12
  

  BE ESAH

  Artigo de opinião de Steven Johnson sobre as alterações a nivel da escrita e leitura provocadas pelo aparecimento dos ebooks.

  biblioteca digital ebooks artigos de opinião web 2.0

• 10 Jan 12
  

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• 03 Dec 11
  

  shastagrimes
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• 13 Nov 11
  

  Butch Randolph

  kindle

• 10 Nov 11
  

  Linda Williams
  • My impulsive purchase of "On Beauty" has another element to it, though -- one  that may not be as welcomed by authors
• 09 Nov 11
  

  Jim Wiggin
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  • 2009 may well prove to  be the most significant year in the evolution of the book since Gutenberg  hammered out his original Bible.
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• 08 Nov 11
  

  Lisa Luse
  • There is great promise and opportunity in the digital-books revolution. The question is: Will we recognize the book itself when that revolution has run its course?
  • Amazon's Kindle e-book reader,
  • Google Book Search service
  • 2009 may well prove to be the most significant year in the evolution of the book since Gutenberg hammered out his original Bible.
  • Amazon's early data suggest that Kindle users buy significantly more books than they did before owning the device, and it's not hard to understand why: The bookstore is now following you around wherever you go. A friend mentions a book in passing, and instead of jotting down a reminder to pick it up next time you're at Barnes & Noble, you take out the Kindle and -- voilà! -- you own it.
  • print books have remained a kind of game preserve for the endangered species of linear, deep-focus reading.
  • old-fashioned book in your hand, the medium works naturally against such distractions; it compels you to follow the thread, to stay engaged with a single narrative or argument.
  • As a result, I fear that one of the great joys of book reading -- the total immersion in another world, or in the world of the author's ideas -- will be compromised. We all may read books the way we increasingly read magazines and newspapers: a little bit here, a little bit there.
  • In this world, citation will become as powerful a sales engine as promotion is today.
  • A world in which search attracts new book readers also will undoubtedly change the way books are written
  • we need to have a technological standard for organizing digital books. We have the Web today because back in the early 1990s we agreed on a standard, machine-readable way of describing the location of a page: the URL.

  • Right now, introductions are written with the assumption that people have already bought the book. That won't be the case in the future, when the introduction is given away. It will, no doubt, be written more to entice readers to buy the whole book.

     
  • a la carte pricing will emerge,

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• 03 Nov 11
  

  Pam Hayes
  • The magic of that moment in Austin ("I'm in the mood for a novel -- oh, here's a  novel right here in my hands!") also tells me that e-book readers are going to  sell a lot of books, precisely because there's an impulse-buy quality to the  devices that's quite unlike anything the publishing business has ever  experienced before
  • Nobody will read alone anymore
  • (One geeky side note here: Before we can get too far in this new world, we need  to have a technological standard for organizing digital books.
  • For centuries, we've had an explicit system for organizing print books in the  form of page numbers and bibliographic info. All of that breaks down in this new  digital world.
  • This sounds like a question only a librarian would get excited about

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• 02 Nov 11
  

  Michael Swafford
  • . It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it  easier to stop reading them
  • The bookstore is now following you around wherever you go. A friend mentions a  book in passing, and instead of jotting down a reminder to pick it up next time  you're at Barnes & Noble, you take out the Kindle and -- voilà! --  you own it.
  • Google will begin indexing and ranking individual pages and paragraphs from  books based on the online chatter about them.
  • You'll read a puzzling passage from a novel and then instantly browse through  dozens of comments from readers around the world, annotating, explaining or  debating the passage's true meaning.
  • Imagine every page of every book individually competing with every page of every  other book that has ever been written, each of them commented on and indexed and  ranked. The unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and  paragraphs vying for Google's attention.
  • just as the serial publishing schedule of Dickens's day led to the obligatory  cliffhanger ending at the end of each installment. Writers and publishers will  begin to think about how individual pages or chapters might rank in Google's  results, crafting sections explicitly in the hopes that they will draw in that  steady stream of search visitors

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  • The magic of that moment in Austin ("I'm in the mood for a novel -- oh, here's a novel right here in my hands!") also tells me that e-book readers are going to sell a lot of books, precisely because there's an impulse-buy quality to the devices that's quite unlike anything the publishing business has ever experienced before.
• 28 Sep 11
  

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• 27 Sep 11
  

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• 09 Sep 11
  

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  • Credit goes to two key developments: the breakthrough success of Amazon's Kindle e-book reader, and the maturation of the Google Book Search service, which now offers close to 10 million titles, including many obscure and out-of-print works that Google has scanned.
• 06 Jun 11
  

  Deborah Siebern-Dennis
  • Every genuinely revolutionary technology implants some kind of "aha"
  • I still have vivid memories of many such moments: clicking on my first Web hyperlink in 1994 and instantly transporting to a page hosted on a server in Australia;
  • The latest such moment came courtesy of the Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.'s e-book reader. A few weeks after I bought the device, I was sitting alone i

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  Sean Nash
  • new forms, such as blogs and Wikipedia.
  • two key developments: the breakthrough success of Amazon's Kindle e-book reader
  • Every word in that library will be searchable. It is hard to overstate the impact that this kind of shift will have on scholarship.
  • Every word in that library will be searchable. It is hard to overstate the impact that this kind of shift will have on scholarship.
  • The magic of that moment in Austin ("I'm in the mood for a novel -- oh, here's a novel right here in my hands!") also tells me that e-book readers are going to sell a lot of books, precisely because there's an impulse-buy quality to the devices that's quite unlike anything the publishing business has ever experienced before.

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  • Mr. Johnson is the author of six books, most recently "The Invention of Air,"
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  • You'll read a puzzling passage from a novel and then instantly browse through dozens of comments from readers around the world, annotating, explaining or debating the passage's true meaning.
  • Nobody will read alone anymore. Reading books will go from being a fundamentally private activity -- a direct exchange between author and reader -- to a community event, with every isolated paragraph the launching pad for a conversation with strangers around the world.
  • Readers will have the option to purchase a chapter for 99 cents, the same way they now buy an individual song on iTunes.
  • We all know the story of how the information-wants-to-be-free ethos of the Web threatened the newspapers with extinction. Wouldn't it be ironic if books turned out to be their savior?

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  stacia studer
  • something that tells you in an instant that the rules have changed forever.
  • watching my 14-month-old master the page-flipping gesture on the iPhone's touch interface.

  • There is great promise and opportunity in the digital-books revolution. The question is: Will we recognize the book itself when that revolution has run its course?

     
  • Think about it. Before too long, you'll be able to create a kind of shadow version of your entire library, including every book you've ever read -- as a child, as a teenager, as a college student, as an adult. Every word in that library will be searchable. It is hard to overstate the impact that this kind of shift will have on scholarship. Entirely new forms of discovery will be possible. Imagine a software tool that scans through the bibliographies of the 20 books you've read on a specific topic, and comes up with the most-cited work in those bibliographies that you haven't encountered yet.

  • You're Never Alone

    Putting books online will also change how we find books -- and talk about them.

  • Writing for Google

    A world in which search attracts new book readers also will undoubtedly change the way books are written,
  • Clearly, we are in store for the return of the cliffhanger.

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  • I still have vivid memories of many such moments: clicking on my first Web hyperlink in 1994 and instantly transporting to a page hosted on a server in Australia;
  • I still have vivid memories of many such moments: clicking on my first Web hyperlink in 1994 and instantly transporting to a page hosted on a server in Australia
  • I still have vivid memories of many such moments: clicking on my first Web hyperlink in 1994 and instantly transporting to a page hosted on a server in Australia;

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  • A friend mentions a book in passing, and instead of jotting down a reminder to pick it up next time you're at Barnes & Noble, you take out the Kindle and -- voilà! -- you own i
  • In other words, an infinite bookstore at your fingertips is great news for book sales, and may be great news for the dissemination of knowledge, but not necessarily so great for that most finite of 21st-century resources: attention.
  • But when you sit down with an old-fashioned book in your hand, the medium works naturally against such distractions; it compels you to follow the thread, to stay engaged with a single narrative or argument.
  • As you read, you will know that at any given moment, a conversation is available about the paragraph or even sentence you are reading. Nobody will read alone anymore. Reading books will go from being a fundamentally private activity -- a direct exchange between author and reader -- to a community event, with every isolated paragraph the launching pad for a conversation with strangers around the world.

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• 01 Jun 11
  

  Jean Bosworth

  A view into how technology may affect the way we read books.

  e books annotations books and technology

• 27 May 11
  

  Jason Tolen
  • After a few taps on the Kindle, I was browsing the Amazon store, and within a minute or two I'd bought and downloaded Zadie Smith's novel "On Beauty." By the time the check arrived, I'd finished the first chapter.
• 26 May 11
  

  stephanie haenni
  • using Google Earth to zoom in from space directly to the satellite image of my house; watching my 14-month-old master the page-flipping gesture on the iPhone's touch interface.
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• 28 Apr 11
  

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• 26 Apr 11
  

  Jonathan Key

  "I still have vivid memories of many such moments: clicking on my first Web hyperlink in 1994 and instantly transporting to a page hosted on a server in Australia; using Google Earth to zoom in from space directly to the satellite image of my house; watching my 14-month-old master the page-flipping gesture on the iPhone's touch interface.
  
  The latest such moment came courtesy of the Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.'s e-book reader. A few weeks after I bought the device, I was sitting alone in a restaurant in Austin, Texas, dutifully working my way through an e-book about business and technology, when I was hit with a sudden desire to read a novel. After a few taps on the Kindle, I was browsing the Amazon store, and within a minute or two I'd bought and downloaded Zadie Smith's novel "On Beauty." By the time the check arrived, I'd finished the first chapter."

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• 21 Apr 11
  

  Amber Hagan
  • It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it easier  to stop reading them. It will expand the universe of books at our fingertips,  and transform the solitary act of reading into something far more social. It  will give writers and publishers the chance to sell more obscure books, but it  may well end up undermining some of the core attributes that we have associated  with book reading for more than 500 years.
  • Think about it. Before too long, you'll be able to create a kind of shadow  version of your entire library, including every book you've ever read -- as a  child, as a teenager, as a college student, as an adult. Every word in that  library will be searchable. It is hard to overstate the impact that this kind of  shift will have on scholarship. Entirely new forms of discovery will be  possible. Imagine a software tool that scans through the bibliographies of the  20 books you've read on a specific topic, and comes up with the most-cited work  in those bibliographies that you haven't encountered yet
  • The magic of that moment in Austin ("I'm in the mood for a novel -- oh, here's a  novel right here in my hands!") also tells me that e-book readers are going to  sell a lot of books, precisely because there's an impulse-buy quality to the  devices that's quite unlike anything the publishing business has ever  experienced before
  • Amazon's early data suggest that Kindle users  buy significantly more books   than they  did before owning the device, and it's not hard to understand why: The    bookstore is now following you around wherever  you go. A friend mentions a book   in  passing, and instead of jotting down a reminder to pick it up next time   you're at Barnes & Noble, you take out the Kindle and -- voilà! --   you  own it

  • Amazon's early data suggest that Kindle users buy significantly more books  than they did before owning the device, and it's not hard to understand why: The  bookstore is now following you around wherever you go. A friend mentions a book  in passing, and instead of jotting down a reminder to pick it up next time  you're at Barnes & Noble, you take out the Kindle and -- voilà! --  you own it.
  • In other words, an infinite bookstore at your fingertips is great news for book  sales, and may be great news for the dissemination of knowledge, but not  necessarily so great for that most finite of 21st-century resources: attention

  • Because they have been largely walled off from the world of hypertext, print  books have remained a kind of game preserve for the endangered species of  linear, deep-focus reading. Online, you can click happily from blog post to  email thread to online New Yorker article -- sampling, commenting and forwarding  as you go. But when you sit down with an old-fashioned book in your hand, the  medium works naturally against such distractions; it compels you to follow the  thread, to stay engaged with a single narrative or argument.

  • As a result, I fear that one of the great joys of book reading -- the total  immersion in another world, or in the world of the author's ideas -- will be  compromised. We all may read books the way we increasingly read magazines and  newspapers: a little bit here, a little bit there.

  • Think of it as a permanent, global book club. As you read, you will know that  at any given moment, a conversation is available about the paragraph or even  sentence you are reading. Nobody will read alone anymore. Reading books  will go from being a fundamentally private activity -- a direct exchange between  author and reader -- to a community event, with every isolated paragraph the  launching pad for a conversation with strangers around the world.
  • Imagine every page of every book individually competing with every page of every  other book that has ever been written, each of them commented on and indexed and  ranked. The unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and  paragraphs vying for Google's attention
  • The economics of digital books will likely change the conventions of reading and  writing as well. Digital distribution makes it a simple matter to offer  prospective buyers a "free sample" to entice them to purchase the whole thing.  Many books offered for the Kindle, for instance, allow readers to download the  first chapter free of charge. The "free sample" component of a book will become  as conventional as jacket-flap copy and blurbs; authors will devise a host of  stylistic and commercial techniques in crafting these giveaway sections, just as  Dickens mastered the cliffhanger device almost two centuries before

  • For nonfiction and short-story collections, a la carte pricing will emerge,  as it has in the marketplace for digital music. Readers will have the option to  purchase a chapter for 99 cents, the same way they now buy an individual song on  iTunes. The marketplace will start to reward modular books that can be  intelligibly split into standalone chapters.

  • This fragmentation sounds unnerving -- yet another blow to the deep-focus  linearity of the print-book tradition. Breaking the book into detachable parts  may sell more books, but there are certain kinds of experiences and arguments  that can only be conveyed by the steady, directed immersion that a 400-page book  gives you. A playlist of the best chapters from "Middlemarch," "Gravity's  Rainbow" and "Beloved" will never work the way a playlist of songs culled from  different albums does today.

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• 23 Mar 10
  

  Kay Cunningham

  Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone.

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• 22 Mar 10
  

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  There is great promise and opportunity in the digital-books revolution. The question is: Will we recognize the book itself when that revolution has run its course? ... In our always-connected, everything-linked world, we sometimes forget that books are th

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• 21 Mar 10
  

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• 14 Feb 10
  

  Petri Tonteri

  "I knew then that the book's migration to the digital realm would not be a simple matter of trading ink for pixels, but would likely change the way we read, write and sell books in profound ways. It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it easier to stop reading them. It will expand the universe of books at our fingertips, and transform the solitary act of reading into something far more social. It will give writers and publishers the chance to sell more obscure books, but it may well end up undermining some of the core attributes that we have associated with book reading for more than 500 years."

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• 26 Jan 10
  

  Jane Harris

  ebooks reading

  • Now, the ability to digitally search millions of books instantly will make finding all that information easier yet again. Expect ideas to proliferate -- and innovation to bloom -- just as it did in the centuries after Gutenberg.
  • Every word in that library will be searchable.
  • Entirely new forms of discovery will be possible. Imagine a software tool that scans through the bibliographies of the 20 books you've read on a specific topic, and comes up with the most-cited work in those bibliographies that you haven't encountered yet.
  • Amazon's early data suggest that Kindle users buy significantly more books than they did before owning the device
  • The bookstore is now following you around wherever you go.
  • In other words, an infinite bookstore at your fingertips is great news for book sales, and may be great news for the dissemination of knowledge, but not necessarily so great for that most finite of 21st-century resources: attention.
  • We all may read books the way we increasingly read magazines and newspapers: a little bit here, a little bit there.
  • With books becoming part of this universe, "booklogs" will prosper, with readers taking inspiring or infuriating passages out of books and commenting on them in public. Google will begin indexing and ranking individual pages and paragraphs from books based on the online chatter about them.
  • Think of it as a permanent, global book club.
  • Imagine every page of every book individually competing with every page of every other book that has ever been written, each of them commented on and indexed and ranked. The unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and paragraphs vying for Google's attention.
  • Writers and publishers will begin to think about how individual pages or chapters might rank in Google's results, crafting sections explicitly in the hopes that they will draw in that steady stream of search visitors.
  • Individual paragraphs will be accompanied by descriptive tags to orient potential searchers; chapter titles will be tested to determine how well they rank.
  • If you want to write a comment about page 32 of "On Beauty," what do you link to? The Kindle location? The Google Book Search page? This sounds like a question only a librarian would get excited about, but the truth is, until we figure out a standardized way to link to individual pages -- so that all the data associated with a specific passage from "On Beauty" point to the same location -- books are going to remain orphans in this new world.
  • Many books offered for the Kindle, for instance, allow readers to download the first chapter free of charge. The "free sample" component of a book will become as conventional as jacket-flap copy and blurbs; authors will devise a host of stylistic and commercial techniques in crafting these giveaway sections,
  • For nonfiction and short-story collections, a la carte pricing will emerge, as it has in the marketplace for digital music.
  • The marketplace will start to reward modular books that can be intelligibly split into standalone chapters.
  • The online marketplace will have established an easy, one-click mechanism for purchasing small quantities of text.
  • If the Kindle payment architecture takes off, it may ultimately lead the way toward the standardized micropayment system whose nonexistence has caused so much turmoil in the news business -- a system many people wish had been built into the Web's original architecture, along with those standardized page locations.

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  • But there is good reason to believe that this strange imbalance will prove to be a momentary blip, and that the blip's moment may be just about over.

    • I had not thought about this until just now, that all the information in books may be close to rising back from the ashes to join the hyperlinked world. How amazing that will be. Will it be the same experience? Will it be better or worse?
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  Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone. (See the full report)

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  Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone.

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  an example cited by Will Richardson in his New Reading, New Writing post : http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/new-reading-new-writing/ That shows the power of conversation around text.

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  Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone

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  • A playlist of the best chapters from "Middlemarch," "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Beloved" will never work the way a playlist of songs culled from different albums does today.
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  • the rules have changed forever.
  • 14-month-old master the page-flipping gesture on the iPhone's touch interface.

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• 28 Jul 09
  

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    I still have vivid memories of many such moments: clicking on my first Web hyperlink in 1994 and instantly transporting to a page hosted on a server in Australia; using Google Earth to zoom in from space directly to the satellite image of my house; watching my 14-month-old master the page-flipping gesture on the iPhone's touch interface.
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  MINDY ALONG WITH BOOK HISTORY TALKS AT START OF SCHOOL SHARE THIS ARTICLE AND THE OTHER ON READING ADN DISCUSSS

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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-21
  Great paragraph
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Really echoes Kevin Kelly in "Scan this Book" http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html?pagewanted=1
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  Kevin Crouch on 2009-12-01
  I imagine everyone has a different style of reading, which is sort what this post is getting at. If you are the type of person who likes to read several books at once, then the digital format is perfect for you. Personally I read the comments in the highlighted sections before I finished the article. That is my reading style.
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  twyla morton on 2009-07-23
  This is amazing.
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  beth gourley on 2009-04-25
  I am curious about the process used here for comments and reading? For example did Will first read the article and then go back and make comments since he knew they would be public? And now that this article is marked up, how did readers read it? did the reader read through the article first ? and then go back and read the comments? or did the reader read comments progressively through the article? Did the comments encourage the reader to scan the article via the comments? Whatever method it makes for a different reading experience as explained in the article. And then how does one go about teaching it?
  Fortunately for now the comments have some substance – but how does one filter, sift the comments when they become inane?
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Some potetntially profound changes right here. But just as I am using Diigo to mark this up for myself and others, I am most interested in the social aspects of reading. I hadn't thought much about the Diigo connection to that until I read this article.
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  Kevin Hodgson on 2009-04-23
  I wonder about this question -- does form matter .. and I am not sure I have the answer (phew, right?) but it is intriguing to be at a point in time where we can even ask that question with some certainty that the book MAY change form as we know it. Or, you know, maybe not. That unknown is what makes it very interesting.
  Kevin
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  Karl Fisch on 2009-04-22
  I think form does matter, in the sense that a particular form lends itself to a particular way of using it - or discourages you from using it in a different way.
  
  But is it a problem when one form transforms into another, possibly giving us new capabilities? I think we want to be careful about not losing some of what is so great about the book (late 20th century definition of "book"), but that doesn't mean the book as we know it is the ultimate expression of the form.
  
  So many of the ideas we hold about books currently are an accident of technology - the technology that existed at the time that books became mainstream. Just as many folks argued that the written word would be the downfall of the oral traditions and would isolate people, locked away with their "books" instead of gathering together, people will now argue in defense of books (again, late 20th century definition of the form).
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Does form matter?
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Echoes of Dov Siedman's "How"
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Really interesting way of putting this, that analog can't compete with hypertext. I wonder how many traditional teachers would argue with that?
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  Kevin Crouch on 2009-12-01
  I had not thought about this until just now, that all the information in books may be close to rising back from the ashes to join the hyperlinked world. How amazing that will be. Will it be the same experience? Will it be better or worse?
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  And perhaps another tipping point in the public's understanding and perception of the "tectonic shift" that's occuring.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Sounds like Shirky.
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  A. T. Wyatt on 2009-05-07
  It has to be easy and it has to be available all the time. Ubiquitous computing, IMHO, is a major part of it for the end user. “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it” (p. 94).
  Source: Mark Weiser as cited in Teaching and Learning in a Ubiquitous Environment by Annette Kratcoski, Karen Swan, and Deborah Campbell.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  The question I keep coming back to is how do we make this simply a part of our practice and not some "Wow!" process? These concepts and others (when you add the work of the social group around information collection, selection and dissemination) are going to be profound shifts in the process.
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  neal clark on 2009-07-22
  The bookstore is following you, sure, but what about the library? will it become something totally different? A commmunication computer house?
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  Elon Fischer on 2009-04-24
  I'm a public school English teacher. If kids could have easy, annotate-able access to every book that's currently available on-line, this would bring about huge change. All schools are (currently) limited by what's in the bookroom. Sure, reading on Kindle is not as easy as reading a traditional book for many kids--but that's changing. Link a kindle-esque device to Diigo so the kids can read and annotate together and (via this device) allow teachers to quickly get the right books in the right kids' hands (rather than having to stick to what's in the bookroom) and exciting things will happen. The device price must come down and there needs to be a way to get more recent books on line for cheap...but this opens up some very cool possibilities.
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  Karl Fisch on 2009-04-22
  You're right, Will, some folks will hate the idea of losing the comfort, serendipity, and community gathering place that the word "bookstore" brings to mind (assuming that's the way you meant it). But couldn't you also view that line the other way around? That all that's best about the bookstore could possibly travel with you - with all of us - everywhere we go? I guess that's the hope - and perhaps the promise - of all of this.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Some are really going to hate reading that line...
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  William Ferriter on 2009-08-15
  What I always wonder is why we consider the "point-and-click" nature of internet reading as "unfocused." I know that when reading online, I often spend more time working my way into a topic by clicking on embedded links and exploring the related resources that are automatically generated by most sites. Is it possible that online reading can actually provide deeper opportunities for exploring than traditional texts?
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Knew that was coming. I'm wondering if this shift in attention is better or worse or simply different. Can the brain (or will the brain) process information differently, in spurts and snippets, in ways that can be similar in "value" to they ways we now consider continuous attention?
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  Nick Liacopoulos on 2009-04-27
  I thought that E-books might engage tech-loving adolescents in active reading, but with the inherent distractions as described in this article, particularly the ability (present or future?) to simply leave the text and wonder off somewhere on the Web, I doubt that schools would make a push for inclusion of these devices in certain reading classes. That's a shame, because being able to control the text size, as well as being able to highlight and comment on certain passages, would help build critical thinking in students' literacy.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  And here I wonder what the pedagogical and curricular implications are of these shifts to linked reading environments. When I think of the process (ineffective as it may be) that I use to capture and store and link information (as in taking these notes right now) and how different it is or, really how absent that is from classroom teaching, it's scary on some level.
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  Jenny Luca on 2009-06-18
  But surely that happens now with Web Pages. We don't shut off the internet to our kids (maybe some schools do by way of filtering!) so why we would shut off their ability to move between texts with a reader. I'm a Teacher-Librarian and my grapple is with how are we going to facilitate these devices in schools. e
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  Lori Rosenberger on 2009-07-23
  Strangely, this reminds me of an episode of Star Trek where Jon-Luc Picard is reading a real old-fashioned book and one of the crew comments about it. His response is how much he enjoys holding the book and turning the pages. For me, it just wouldn't be the same sitting in front of a fire and reading a Kindle.
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  Sandylee Singletary on 2009-04-23
  So, as teachers, we can teach students that the way they read and the activities they engage in while reading, are determined by their purpose for reading. When the desired outcome is a deep immersion in an author's world, maybe we do not turn on the diigolet--in the same way that when we get online to accomplish a task, we avoid interruptions by leaving the chat program off.
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  Steve Sarmento on 2009-04-22
  I think the key here is "may". The two "styles" of reading are not mutually exclusive.
  
  For some of my favorite movies I sometimes watch in the standard presentation, other times with a commentary track from the writer or director. After listening to the commentary I sometimes go back and watch a scene again to see it with new eyes.
  
  The television show LOST is a great example of this new type of reading. Some people watch the episodes and enjoy the show - and that's all. There is also a community of viewers that engage in ongoing debate, discussion, and dialogue about each episode and the unfolding story. I see the same happening for books.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  And, so? Again, I'm not convinced this is a bad thing, just different. Look at how reading has evolved over the ages. Is this just another step, albeit huge one, in that evolution.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Yes. Imagine doing this to books.
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  Claire Hertz on 2009-04-24
  When I watch my high school and college aged children connect on the web - I can see I am only limited by my imagination. Sharing posts with others on the same page of the item we are discussing is one of my favorites. I smile everytime I get to a page with highlights and sticky notes from fellow Diigo users.
  
  After reading this article, I'm putting on Kindle on my mother's day wish list - maybe one of my kids will show my husband my post - do you think they can take a hint???
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  Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-04-23
  I read the article before the markup and am not going to add due to time - isn't that always the case - but Will I wanted to make the point that I usually try and join you when you are using Diigo and I usually discover that via Twitter - the two tools work well - discovery on Twitter, conversation on Diigo.
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  Travis Alber on 2009-04-23
  Yeah. I also wish the comments weren't so separated from the content...they all talk about different aspects of the article.
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  Shane Stevens on 2009-04-23
  One can certainly see the educational usage of Diigo. However, I fear that many may need to overcome the dreaded filter. In my district, for example, the login portion of the site is blocked, which makes both the browser plugin and web services useless when it comes to this type of dialogue.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  I'm just struck at this moment how badly I want to be able to engage in a conversation with others about these ideas. The idea that I'm using Diigo to add these meta thoughts creates an expectation of response that is pretty strong. I want a disucssion to happen here, on the page. I'm thinking that I'd almost like to be able to save these threads and the contextual highlights as a blog post, but it would be too disjointed. Guessing I will have to Tweet out this undertaking to see if others might join in.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  I find this to be a compelling vision. Others, not so much I'm sure.
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  Kim Herman on 2009-07-22
  True - perhaps we should say "no one will HAVE to read along anymore." We can choose to read comments and respond to them, or just immerse ourselves in the original text!
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  Michael Stevenson on 2009-04-23
  I think the emphasis here should be on "can be" rather than "is" or "will be." Essentially I feel that with tools like diigo, the reader has the option of making the reading experience as private or as public as he/she sees fit.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Again, this can certainly be cool or chaotic. But I love the way Diigo allows you to do this in small groups. Wouldn't it be cool if we had a diverse "must read article" group where once a week we just came in a picked apart an article from many sides?
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  Michael Stevenson on 2009-04-23
  One question I have here is: how much will people defer to Google? Are we becoming a society that has to be fed page-ranking data before we make a choice on anything? What will this do to authors on the fringe or those who drift out of popularity?
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  And then connect those ideas to every blog post, Tweet, etc. Navigating all that meta data will be a hugely different reading skill. Is THAT a new literacy?
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Love that thought, and the implications that it holds for public writing.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  This idea kind of tweaks me, I'll admit. That shift in the motivation for writing, for the audience of Google, draws some interesting parallels to writing for the teacher and not oneself or one's audience. As I write these notes, for instance, I am primarily writing for myself, but I am also concious of the potential audience that might read them when I blog about it and tweet it out. This is not for Google, at least not yet.
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  neal clark on 2009-07-22
  Just like you have the power to read other's comments with Diigo and turn it off, I would hope that books or e-books can be read with the choice of all the hyperlinks and other added electornic extras or for the pure idea of reading pleasure
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Tagging on the sentence level. Now that is cool, I think, and I've asked Diigo to allow tagging on the comment or the highlight level in that way.
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  Karl Fisch on 2009-04-22
  I don't know about that. If the content is at least decent and it's optimized for search, will that be more "succesful" than content that's outstanding but can't be found? Isn't this just another way to reach an audience, and haven't writers/composers/artists/politicians always done that? And, the money question for educators, shouldn't we be helping our students learn to write in this medium?
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Yuk. And I don't think it would work, necessarily, as readers would be less apt to promote that prose, right?
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  Karl Fisch on 2009-04-22
  It sounds like the issue he's really talking about is how do you cite, because I think how you link is pretty straightfoward - I think you link to the text (or image or . . .). The other piece of that, of course, is how do you pull it altogether. Using comments via Diigo as an example, how do you ensure those comments come through and are displayed correctly if you are reading this on a desktop computer, on a netbook, on an iPhone, on a Kindle, etc. (notably absent, of course, is print).
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  Nan Andrews on 2009-04-23
  I envision placing 10 Kindles that are loaded with appropriate magazines and newspapers on our HS periodical shelves. They won't circulate out of the school library. I'm just waiting for color and flexibility (Plastic Logic device, 2010 release)!
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  Shane Stevens on 2009-04-23
  A subscription that came with a Kindle would be a very interesting option. I wonder how that would drive advancements in the technology? Would it also "force" more publishers to go digital? Interesting indeed.
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  Karl Fisch on 2009-04-22
  Yep. For example, this article that posits the New York Times should simply ditch paper and give away Kindles to all its subscribers - http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/printing-the-nyt-costs-twice-as-much-as-sending-every-subscriber-a-free-kindle
  
  Not sure if the math works out or not, but I bet it's a model that somebody is going to try very soon. Perhaps Amazon themselves? Hmmm . . .
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  Susan Dineen on 2009-04-21
  Considering that
  "The New York Times Company reported a first-quarter loss of $74.5 million on Tuesday, compared with a loss of $335,000 in the period a year ago, as it joined the roster of newspaper companies recording the steepest advertising declines in generations," maybe we'd better think seriously about how the Kindle — or something like it — could change everything.
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  jim Beeler on 2009-07-22
  ... and, Charles Dickens, among others, did this years ago.
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  Will Richardson on 2009-04-22
  Isn't O'Reilly already doing this?
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  Karl Fisch on 2009-04-22
  I don't disagree that there's much to be gained by deep-focus, sustained reading (and writing for that matter). We definitely need to keep this. But, again, there's another side. Perhaps the playlist he describes will "never workr the way a playlist of songs" does, but can it work in an entirely new way? Different than a playlist of songs, but also different than a 400 page book?

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  Karen Siemens on 2009-04-23
  I can't help but wonder where this will take us. I've noticed already how the web is pushing the print media - because frankly the media does not represent the population very accurately. For a long time the media has dominated public opinion. I think they feel threatened and rightly so.
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  John2 Kepler on 2009-06-11
  Go a step further. If the semantic web becomes a reality, the competition will include books that didn't even exist when a given book was written.
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  Catherine Beck on 2009-07-29
  Mine did too!
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  Graham Perrin on 2009-10-24
  referred from http://robinheyden.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/using-diigo-to-start-a-conversation-with-students/
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  stacia studer on 2011-06-06
  WOW! 1st time playing with this technology. This tool allows model thinking for really understanding or clarifying text and provides "anchoring" on where to begin my thought process!
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  Misty Burright on 2011-06-06
  After using diigo in a class last fall, I told all my friends about it..but it's been months since I have logged in to my account. When I did, I found a laundry list of articles and some I can't remember why I bookmarked them. Why didn't I annotate??? Guess, I haven't let go of the idea that a pile of articles on my desk where I can see them seems more urgent than dozens of articles neatly tucked away in my diigo account.....sigh..
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