oxk oxk confession argument project
TRANSCRIPT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOUOr4kJoXk
Confession
Argument
Project
Orientation
Ebooks are here“Among early adopters, e-books
aren't replacing their old book habits, but adding to them.
Amazon, the biggest seller of e-books, says its customers buy 3.3
times as many books after buying a Kindle, a figure that has
accelerated in the past year as prices for the device fell.”
Holiday reading(July 2010) I am in Whitby, Yorkshire. It is a sunny summer day. Pensioners crowd the foreshore and
the narrow streets. The fish and chip shops are busy and the sea gulls are huge! I visited the
Captain Cook Museum and was surprised to see so many Goths and Goth shops. Discovering Dracula
was partly written and set here I pulled out my Kobo and began reading. What a mesmeric story! I
couldn’t put it down and my wife became upset that I stayed in the B & B reading instead of
walking.
Whole device dimensions: 18cm by 12cm by 1cm. Reading screen dimensions: 12cm by 9cm Weight: 220 grams. Reading screen display: E-Ink. Font sizes choices: 5 serif and non serif Storage: 1GB internal. Expandable to 4GB with SD
card and with battery life of 20 hours Data transfer: Via USB from PC. Audio: None Navigation: 4 push buttons for Home, Menu, Display
and Back, Pad button for north, south, east & west.
Kobo
available via www.Gutenberg.org & in the Apple app stanza
STOKER, Bram/ Dracula http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345 Beowulf http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/981 NESBITT, Edith/ Five Children and It http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/778 CONRAD, Joseph/ Heart of Darkness http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/526 FLAUBERT, Gustav/ Madame Bovary http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27575
Five Kobo titles
Whole device dimensions: 20cm by 13.5cm by 0.5cm Reading screen dimensions: 12cm b y 9cm Weight: 290gm Reading screen: E-Ink Font size choices: 6 with serif Storage: 1 GB and with battery life of 20 hours Data Transfer: USB to PC and/or WiFi (Whispernet) Audio: 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack with built-in speaker
and volume control. Speech synthesis on most books. Navigation: 2 push buttons on the left for Previous Page
and Next Page. 4 push buttons on the right for Home, Next Page, Menu, and Back. Button for enter, north, south, east & west. Alpha-numeric key pad.
Kindle
available on Amazon and can be read on the Apple Kindle app on iPad
ONODA POWER, Natsu/ God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the creation of Post World
War II Manga http://tinyurl.com/33wxgfk
ZIPES, Jack/ Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children http://tinyurl.com/2cavqeq
HUTCHEON, Linda/ A Poetics of Post modernism http://tinyurl.com/39bj9qc
BRENNER, Robin E./ Understanding Manga and Anime http://tinyurl.com/2ay2vbx
GARNER, Joan/ Wings of Fantasy: using reader’s theatre to study fantasy genre http://tinyurl.com/2366k4g
Five titles for Kindle
Whole device dimensions: 24cm by 19 cm by 0.5cm Reading screen dimensions: 20cm by 15cm Weight: 700 grams Reading screen display: back lit Font choices: Variable according to app Storage: 64GB and battery life of 10 hours Data transfer: Via USB from PC, Wi Fi and 3G. Audio: 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack with built-in
speaker Voice synthesiser: No Navigation: touch screen
iPad
iPhone Bookshelf http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookshelf/id284
934036?mt=8 Stanza http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/stanza/id284956
128?mt=8 3D Classic Literature Collection http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/3d-classic-literat
ure-collection/id352342690?mt=8 Kobo on iPad http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ebooks-by-kobo-
hd/id364742849?mt=8
Kindle on iPad http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/kindle/id302584
613?mt=8
Apple ebook apps and titles
Multimedia apps The Cat in the Hat http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/the-cat-in-th
e-hat-dr-seuss/id353473931?mt=8 The Pedlar of Gushing Cross http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pedlar-lady/i
d380527812?mt=8 Jack and the Beanstalk http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/jack-beanst
alk-childrens-interactive/id364871348?mt=8
Three Little Pigs HD lite http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/the-three-litt
le-pigs-hd-lite/id364760795?mt=8
iPad apps
Classic narrative text on Kobo and Kindle Kindle and non fiction iPad with Kindle iPad with apps (
http://www.vicipadtrial.org/groups/myapps/) iPad with graphic novels Android Risks with WiFi Vanishing apps Updates can be trivial or major Collaborative Clouds (www.readcloud.com/ )
Experimenting in 2010
A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said they now read more than they did with print books. Of those surveyed, 58% said they read about the same as before while 2% said they read less than before. And 55% of the respondents in the May study, paid for by e-reader maker Sony Corp., thought they'd use the device to read even more books in the future. The study looked at owners of three devices: Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, Apple Inc.'s iPad and the Sony Reader.
http://tinyurl.com/2eb958l Accessed 2010-09-29
