Thank you Jorgen for pointing us to a post by R. David Lankes at the School Library Journal titled: “Ereaders, the iPad—Is That All There Is?” Seems Lankes was under-impressed by the recent launch of iPad. (And it sounds like he was none-too excited by the eBook Reading Devices that were already on the market.)
None of his discontent has to do with the machines themselves. He accepts that they perform admirably as viewers for digitized avatars of earth-bound volumes. His desire, it seems, is to see the actual eBooks re-invented. So far, he contends, we’re missing an opportunity to redefine among other things: How they display, what they contain and how we interact with them.
Lankes makes some excellent points, but I’m afraid he’ll have to be patient. He’s describing the future of the eBook.
