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I'm Being Interviewed!

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Karen over on the Coming Down The Mountain blog is publishing an interview with me today about my adventures with ePublishing, the Kindle etc. Karen's is one of the blogs I follow closely and is always a great read. Highly recommended. But then, if you've come over from Karen's blog, you already know that! Many, many thanks to her for asking me.

While we're on the subject of eReaders I thought you might be interested in this. It's a promotional video for Microsoft's Courier device that I came across recently. I was pretty taken with it. Technical details of the device aren't clear yet and the video itself is a bit cutesy. It doesn't even demonstrate the Courier being used as an eBook, more as an interactive journal. Still, it's worth taking a look.



What struck me was that I really liked the idea of having the two screens, like a conventional book. It feels much more immersive, much more like you could lose yourself within its "pages". By comparison, the single-screen arrangement of the Kindle etc. seems suddenly rather clinical and cold.

It seems to me this is definitely a device/concept to keep an eye on. Is this the future?

Posted by Simon Kewin at 16:00

11 comments:

  1. Unknown24 March 2010 at 16:54

    ooh, I like the look of that. Kind of like a giant DS, but with Windows on it...

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  2. Simon Kewin24 March 2010 at 17:17

    Andy,

    Absolutely. Same comments apply to the DS - I thougth the double-screen was odd at first but now I love the way it feels more immersive. Well done for getting computer gaming in!

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  3. Old Kitty24 March 2010 at 18:19

    Hi

    Summat's up with KarenG's blog.I don't know if it's me but everytime I click on her blog I just get her banner and the subject heading of your interview.

    I'm unclear if it's my pc or not. I tried to click on your link here but I get the same.

    :-)

    Anyone else having that problem? Sorry I don't really know what to do to get her blog back!!!!!

    Come back KarenG!!

    :-)

    Take care
    x

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  4. Simon Kewin24 March 2010 at 18:36

    OldKitty,

    Odd! It seems to work fine from here. I'll let Karen know in case there's anything she can test at her end.

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  5. Old Kitty24 March 2010 at 18:54

    Hi Simon

    thanks for replying! I started clicking everywhere and clicked on something called "View in Google Reader" a link that I never knew was there at the bottom right of the screen of my blog.

    When I click on it, every current page of the blog that I follow expands in text only so at least I can read her current blog post so that's something! I just can't do much else but at least I can read the interview now.

    Phew!

    Take care
    x

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  6. Anonymous24 March 2010 at 19:32

    Great interview, Simon. (I like Karen's blog a lot.)

    But what kind of English accent was I supposed to imagine, that is the important question? I read it with an Eton boy cadence!

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  7. Thomas Taylor24 March 2010 at 19:48

    I could only view Karen's blog in Firefox. An interesting interview.

    I like that gadget. I could get used to using something like that to browse the web and write.

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  8. Simon Kewin24 March 2010 at 20:31

    Donna,

    I can confirm I don't have an Eton accent! In fact not much of an accent at all but I'm from the Isle of Man and Manx accents are a bit Irish and a bit Liverpool and a bit, well, Manx!

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  9. Simon Kewin24 March 2010 at 20:35

    Thomas,

    Yes, you're right, it works in Firefox but not IE. I only ever use Firefox so didn't notice. I'll let Karen know ...

    It looks fairly cool doesn't it? I experienced a brief pang of technolust while watching the video - and that's something I thought I'd grown out of!

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  10. Karen Jones Gowen24 March 2010 at 21:51

    Simon, looks like it's fixed now, so those using Explorer can view it just as well as Mozilla users. Sorry about that! I'll keep it up for awhile so all your followers have a chance to come over and see how brilliant you are in your Minx accent. Oops, sorry, I meant Manx.

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  11. Simon Kewin25 March 2010 at 07:07

    Thanks Karen!

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I'd love to know what you think.