fabianmohr + reading   25

A Simpler Page // A List Apart
"The physical book is something designers get. It’s got a lot going for it, not the least of which is the fact that it’s physical. The boundaries are there, right before us. No guess work is necessary. And so there are a lot of great examples of well designed books. You needn’t look far to uncover a mountain of beautifully typeset and balanced pages. But what about digital books?"
ipad  design  typography  usability  ebook  book  reading  from delicious
january 2011 by fabianmohr
Smories - new stories for children, read by children
".. free original stories for kids, read by kids. 50 added every month. Submit yours!"
video  children  reading  audio  storytelling  social  literacy  stories 
may 2010 by fabianmohr
Lying about books // Kottke
"From the Guilty Secrets survey by Spread the Word, the top ten books that people say that they've read but haven't."
reading  life 
march 2009 by fabianmohr
LibriVox
"LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. "
audio  opensource  mp3  podcast  ipod  community  reading  culture 
august 2008 by fabianmohr
Institute for the Future of the Book
"We are a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens"
reading  print  digital 
november 2007 by fabianmohr
Brijit - Great content in 100 words or less
"Simply, Brijit aggregates the world's best long-form content and abstracts it in 100 words or less, providing (...) readers with rich, qualitative summaries as well as better guideposts for what to read, watch or listen to now."
aggregation  print  reading  onlinejournalism  digital  community  mobile 
october 2007 by fabianmohr
amazon book text stats - data visualization & visual design // information aesthetics
"each book in Amazon's Search Inside!™ program now features statistics computed from the text. next to a word cloud illustrating the most frequently used terms in a book, the statistic data include indicators about a book's readability & complexity..."
infographics  usability  business  reading  amazon 
october 2007 by fabianmohr

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