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Readings 5, Paper 1

Bill N. Schlit, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, Kei Tanaka, and Catherine C. Marshall. As We May Read: The Reading Appliance Revolution. Computer, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 65-73. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.738306

Publication information:

  1. It was published in 1999.
  2. The authors work at Xerox PARC.
  3. Computer is a Journal for general computer science published by the IEEE.
Take-Aways:
  • There are different kinds of texts that people read, and people have different reasons for reading.
  • At the time, displays had a much lower resolution than paper.
  • Ebook viewers may need to reformat text.
  • They discuss a prototype system, XLibris, that they built.
  • There are some interesting things an ebook reader can do with network connectivity.
Questions:
  • Almost every research paper I have ever read, I read on my laptop. Have the predictions in this article happened?
  • The desktop metaphor is not appropriate for ebooks.  Also, paging is not necessarily the best way to read.  What are some better metaphors?
  • Is fixed layout or scrolling better?

Readings 5, Paper 2

Gene Golovchinsky. Reading in the office. BooksOnline '08 Proceeding of the 2008 ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories, 2008, pp. 21-24. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1458412.1458420

Publication information:

  1. It was published in 2008.
  2. The author works at Fxpal.

Take-Aways:
  • There were a lot of unsuccessful ebook readers in the 90s.
  • People reading on a PDA tend to skim.
  • The want the ability to annotate, quote, compare, search, and share.
  • They compare the Kindle to a less common device, the iLiad.
Questions:
  • What are current ebook readers lacking?
  • What can be done to improve the ability to quote from an ebook?
  • How can you compare between ebooks within one reader?


Readings 5, Paper 3

Kaj Gronbaek, Anne Rhode, BalaSuthas Sundararajah, and Sidsel Bech-Petersen. InfoGallery: informative art services for physical library spaces. JCDL '06 Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2006, pp. 21-30. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1141753.1141757

Publication information:

  1. It was published in 2006.

  3. JCDL is the main digital libraries conference.
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    Readings 5, Paper 4

    Adrian Graham, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd. Time as essence for photo browsing through personal digital libraries. JCDL '02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2002, pp. 326-335. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/544220.544301

    Publication information:

    1. It was published in 2002.

    3. JCDL is the main digital libraries conference.
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