Post-Books
Dublin Core
Title
Post-Books
Subject
Post-Books
Description
What happens with books and other periodicals when they move to digital space? What kinds of affordances are there, and what are the limitations? How does materiality work?
Creator
Students of COM/ENG 395
Format
Digital Images
Collection Items
Kindle Paperwhite
This is the display of a Kindle Paperwhite showing a page from the "Non-Designer's Handbook". Kindles use e-ink displays that are intended to mimic paper in terms of contrast. They support both type and images, but are limited in the range of grays…
New York Times Article
This article from the New York Times is about pollution in different parts of the world. It is a full-length article, but it is set against a changing backdrop of floating dots that represent particulate pollution. The article detects the reader's…
Escape from the Crazy Place
Escape from the Crazy Place, originally conveived by JJ Guest in 1984, is a collaborative work between about fifteen authors. In 2006 it was released online, described as an interactive round-robin novel. The novel works like a digital…
I Wrote This For You
A book of poetry accompanied by images by Iain Thomas. I downloaded this to read on my Kindle not realizing it was poetry. In the interest of full disclosure, I have not looked at a physical copy of this book, but I have read enough to understand the…
Dwarf House History Menu
A page in the menu of the Dwarf House, the first Chickfila. I took a picture of this menu when stopping on my drive through Atlanta on the way to Destin last year. The reader can read the history on how the Dwarf House came to be and see pictures to…
Nehanda Kindle E-book
This is a picture of a page out of the ebook version of the paperback book entitled Nehanda. I purchased this ebook through the Amazon Kindle reader and used it for an English class I was taking last semester. The Kindle reader has a different page…
House of Leaves
The book House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is the perfect example of physical print being influenced by digital media. As you can see in this picture, the pages are a bit discombobulated, with the names of people and places in the furthest left…
Alice in Wonderland Audiobook
This is a screenshot from the Audible recording of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I bought it on Amazon because it came free with purchase of the Kindle ebook. You can play the audio file and have the ebook open to read along on a…
Liaisons E-Text
This is a photo of my e-textbook for French 102. Last semester, I had the hard copy of the textbook as a rental but settled on the E-Text for this semester since it was a more economical option. However, the online version of the textbook is just not…
Empire Strikes Back- Record Storybook
This is an image of a vinyl record of the OST for Empire Strikes Back. It features a gate-fold record sleeve and an interesting approach to it's book like folding aspect. Between the two sleeves holding the vinyl is a 15 page book outlining the…