"A book is a discrete collection of text (and other media) that is designed by the author(s) as an internally complete representation of an idea, or set of ideas; emotion or set of emotions; and transmitted to readers in various formats."

Hva er en bok og hva skal boka være i 2015 og utover, når den skal leve parallelt med PCen?

"The future of the book and the future of reading are possibly the exact same thing. Francesco Casetti defines a medium as a site of experience. Perhaps instead of thinking of a medium purely in material qualities, consider the experiental qualities and whether the phenomenological qualities of that experience can survive a change in materials." — Eric Hu

The computer changes not only how we read but also how we write

A notebook that lasts your whole life; diary, journal, blog; is a blog ever a book? Why / why not?

Markeringstusj (+ streke under ord)
Tegninger (i margen, oppå tekst)
Notater i margen
Bokmerker
Auto bla/scroll etter lesehastighet
Innebygd cmd + f
Prosent istedenfor sidetall
Nummererte linjer for navigasjon

1010010110
On computers it's all just numbers and you can always make an exact copy
How can an electronic book be personal and unique?
User interaction?

"As a medium of information storage, the book has gotten too big to cope with itself"

Må jeg hevde at det er en bok for å ha besvart oppgaven?
Boka som fysisk medium: Kanskje digitale bøker ikke går an, at jeg må lage en fysisk bok? Hvorfor må vi fortsette å kalle det bøker egentlig, når det er inni dataen?
Boka har egenskaper som aldri(?) vil kunne gjenskapes på skjerm

Forskjellen på det som er trykt og det som er tegnet;
Håndskrift → boktrykk → pc

Tekst som tekst
vs
tekst som bilde

Tesseract OCR (text recognition in images)
Computers read text (like our handwritten pages) as images and find shapes from pictures; similar to how I see Arabic text

The Institute for the Future of the Book
Arabic programming language
School for Poetic Computation
Offprint Paris
Tesseract OCR

pad

religious notebook from egypt, year 668
a set of rules with the owner’s comments
i want to recreate the experience of this book in the digital
the personal, unique, intimate

it’s like a diary; journal —> blogs
why is a blog not a book?
i’m not sure that i think a digital book will ever exist
i think the book needs its physical, tactile dimension
each medium has its strengths and limitations
think rather about how to improve the reading experience on screen
maybe leave the book as it is
back to the future; the scroll

the notebook that lasts forever
taking notes from this course
how can i make something unique and personal digitally when it’s all numbers
anyway and can in theory be copied exactly
(localStorage: only saved in one browser on one person’s computer and only accessible by that person)
where to take this next?
canvas not working
textboxes in the margin
bookmarks
auto scroll
numbered lines like in text editors for code
- attach/upload images? sound? video?
- needs database? loses uniqueness