alt Hacker NewsInteresting article but unfortunately, as is often the case with serious literary folk talking about technology, I find his concluding observations (hopes) about augmented books completely unconvincing as well as vague.
>> The prospect of paper-based augmented books also holds out the possibility of revolutionary combinations of text, image and sound that would recast the boundaries of literary art.
Sounds like a solution in search of a problem, or worse - the sort of kidutainment geegaws you find in modern libraries.
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> ''sort of kidutainment geegaws''
Or rather as special case learning tools that would gather dust, I suspect.
>The prospect of paper-based augmented books also holds out the possibility of revolutionary combinations of text, image and sound that would recast the boundaries of literary art.
So TikTok with subtitles (which are often not actually reflecting the sound)
> as is often the case with serious literary folk talking about technology
You should also see technology folk talking about serious literary folk - it's equally misconstrued and off track.