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provides an easy but different way to authors to be discovered, which excites readers as

well.

1.3 Books or e-book?

Books are such a traditional media that people get used to and appreciate it a lot. Every

book is unique as the cover and the typeface, the color and the texture of paper etc., are

distinct from one another. The way of handling them, shelving them, the smell and the

feel of them make people believe those paperbacks probably are the best design for

readers. It is believed by many people that the tactile printed media is more flexible as it

is portable and sharable, while digital books contained in an e-reader are restrained in

the plastic box, both the physical form and the contents.

A company, Portigal Consulting

, has collected some interesting opinions from the field

research of “reading ahead”. There are six participants who are active readers in reading

books or e-books involved (three are ordinary readers, three are Kindle readers). The

synthesis about books and reading comes from their reading behavior and opinions.

Books are unique objects to people as the contents they are carrying and the design

makes every single book different. People handle them differently with personal

preferences. They do more than carry contents

. Books engage the senses. They become

carriers of specific memories, a symbol of an event, interaction and relationship. As

objects, books can be well designed as art pieces, the first edition can be very valuable to

be collected. Books have strong connection with personal identity as others can see a

piece of you by looking at what you read. Books can create physical record of someone’s

reading activity, for instance, lining up books in a certain order to get a sense of

accomplishment or adding annotations, bookmarks and tags to track ones’ personal

history.

For many Kindle users, they like Kindle as much as they like books, as Kindle does

facilitate the need of mobile reading. For People who love reading, they are bound up

with their love with books, because it does give more experience than an e-reader. In the

main finding from the field research of “reading ahead”, most participants have more

positive attitude in books than e-books. As it mentioned, for Erica, the Kindle signifies

“computer”, so it does not let her “unplug” from the fast-paced connected lifestyle.

Several people described the kinetics of page-turning as an important aspect of reading

books that is absent in the Kindle. Most of all, Books offer ways of navigating content that

a Kindle does not: flipping, comparing non-sequential pages, looking at the recipes at the

end of each chapter

Books are almost the perfect design for the way it works. Because they are simple and

easy to handle, flexible and durable and instant on-off.

http://www.portigal.com/

Dan Soltzberg, Reading Ahead: Topline Summary, Aug. 10

,2009, http://www.portigal.com/

Dan Soltzberg, Reading Ahead: Topline Summary, Aug. 10

,2009, http://www.portigal.com/

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