Comments on: Enhanced reading

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By: Quintin Gunzalez

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By: Top Picks Thursday 12-01-2011 « The Author Chronicles

Top Picks Thursday 12-01-2011 « The Author Chronicles — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:06:52 +0000

[…] world is in flux, and there is a lot of experimenting going on. Agent John Rudolph agrees that enhanced ebooks have been a flop, but does the new SnapTag idea have merit? Agent Mary Kole talks about college age YA protagonists and the so-far unsuccessful […]

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:32:40 +0000

Interesting that some of you are open to SmartTags for nonfiction–but do you think it would actually work better on the print/phone model, or as the traditional (hah!) enhanced eBook?

Also interesting to note the total antipathy for fiction, though of course it totally makes sense–who wants to have the spell of a good story broken by techno-gimmicks? In fact, the only successful book with tags I can think of is THE SEARCH FOR WONDLA by Tony diTerlizzi, which originally was even clunkier than print/phone–you were supposed to unlock the tags using the webcam on your computer!

By: David Sosnowski

David Sosnowski — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:01:26 +0000

Sounds like e-footnotes to me.

By: Kristin Laughtin

Kristin Laughtin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:57:04 +0000

Like others, I can imagine a great many uses in non-fiction, especially for academic materials. It could be a very easy way to link to interactive anatomical diagrams in a medicine textbook, or a scan of an old manuscript in a history book, etc.

For fiction, though, it would drive me nuts, and I’d hope they wouldn’t be too intrusive on the reading experience. I know of a few books that have created soundtracks to go to the story, and I might find something like that cool in theory (because I still probably wouldn’t listen to the music, at least not while reading–maybe after). But in those cases, I’d probably just go to the author’s site anyway if I were interested, so the snap tags seem a bit redundant on top of being possibly annoying…

By: Catherine Whitney

Catherine Whitney — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:02:40 +0000

Holy cow! Can’t we just READ?

By: Nathan Rudy

Nathan Rudy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:48:04 +0000

I’d love enhanced books for non-fiction, but for fiction it would take me away from the story. Anything that takes me out of the story — whether bad writing, a phone call or a link — is annoying.

If it is important to the story, it should be in the story. If it’s not that important to the story then why would I want to take the time to go look somewhere OUTSIDE of the book for it?

By: Kathi Taylor

Kathi Taylor — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:13:14 +0000

I suppose direct links to the online stores of the manufacturers of the yarns used in knitting books could be useful. But when I’m reading (fiction or anything else), I don’t want to be interrupted. All that stuff mixed in with the text would be visually distracting. I think I’d avoid those books altogether.