{"id":56,"date":"2010-04-05T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibliowonk.com\/wp\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-03-03T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:38:52","slug":"nicholas-carr-on-the-ipad-reader-and-ebook-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Carr on the iPad reader and eBook reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">Nicholas Carr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/the_postbook_bo.php\">argues<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the model of book reading (and hence book writing) the iPad promotes  seems fated, in time, to become the dominant one. The book itself, in  this model, becomes an app, a multihypermediated experience to click  through rather than a simple sequence of pages to read through. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And he cites John Makinson of Penguin, who &#8220;foresees sprinkling movie clips among Jane Austen&#8217;s paragraphs in future editions of <i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Dish argues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remain convinced that there is a singular experience &#8211; of devoting  time to read a writer&#8217;s sustained and crafted words of more than, say,  50,000 words &#8211; that cannot be supplanted by anything else. Maybe this  solitary absorption of another&#8217;s words will become the activity of a  precious few. But anyone seeking wisdom or learning over knowledge and  entertainment will still look for it. And treasure it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/04\/books-for-readers-who-dont-read-anymore.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=09ac76a1-f41b-8c02-a915-112810251ec3\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Carr argues: the model of book reading (and hence book writing) the iPad promotes seems fated, in time, to become the dominant one. The book itself, in this model, becomes an app, a multihypermediated experience to click through rather than a simple sequence of pages to read through. And he cites John Makinson of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=56\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nicholas Carr on the iPad reader and eBook reader<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,78],"tags":[275,376,274,276],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebook","category-future-of-reading","tag-ebook-readers","tag-ipad","tag-nicholas-carr","tag-reading","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}