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beepreader
ebook software senses nonattentiveness then generates lively sidebars | |
I read a book [link] that said that during the 20th century only a tenth of people would actually read all of a book they aquired
If ebooks, as specific reader gadgets, could up that to a third or even two thirds then ebooks would have more purpose
If it actually tripled absorption people or
firms could justify book with reader rather than just book. maybe. (I say maybe as I think retention is different between the two media)
anyway an eBook could sense when you were getting nonattentive at the scrollbar or perhaps even read your pulse
On detecting drifting attention the ebook could suddenly grab a piece of writing that started with one of a few hundred Zing words suggesting that if you kept going you'd get there
The effect would be a little like a magazine with the lively quote or gist appearing as a sidebar
the reason this is actually a fresh feature rather than say an ancient printing tradition is that the Ebook is measuring your reaction to the material with the goal of keeping you reading
This person studies motivation as well as purposeful change thus went to an effort to craft a book people would actually read after aquiring
http://www.amazon.c...d=1224734322&sr=8-1
[beanangel, Oct 23 2008]
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I try to read all the books I get, I just go at my own pace and vacation from time to time, eventually it gets read. Nothing can *make* me pay attention. |
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The trick is the read while your doing something else. Playing an
audio book in your car while you drive turns a rather boring
experience into an interesting one, especially on long trips.
Surprisingly enough it doesn't effect your driving, probably
because different areas of the brain are in use. |
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Audio books are expensive but public libraries have an ever
growing selection of them. |
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// used to have a manager who would always make a point of
slinging in an aside about why I should give a monkey's about the
latest slice of shit-pie I was being asked to deal with - // [zen
Tom] |
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He was using the "Carat or the Shtick" learned in MGT101. |
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