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At some point page turning as in physical book becomes an anachronism like the floppy disk icon on save buttons. Do you expect your browser to flip pages upon n
by lostmsu 4y ago
At some point page turning as in physical book becomes an anachronism like the floppy disk icon on save buttons. Do you expect your browser to flip pages upon navigation?
- spikeagally 4y agoAt some point. That point is a long long way away.
- s3p 4y agoDifference of opinion. Others may believe that point is today.
- spikeagally 4y agoThey’d be wrong. It’s not opinion. Paper books are clearly not anachronistic currently.
- tim333 4y ago"Print books out-sell eBooks 4-to-1" - recent data.
- lostmsu 4y agoIn numbers or in revenue?
- tim333 4y agoNot sure. Quote was from https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/paper-books-vs-ebooks-statistics/ https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/paper-books-vs-ebooks-statist...
- gnicholas 4y agoTrue. But piracy is a big issue, and it exclusively happens digitally. I wonder what the numbers would look like if you factored in pirated ebooks/etextbooks.
- lostmsu 4y agoAre you sure? There's an entire generation of people born after 2000 who probably read more electronic books than physical ones.
- spikeagally 4y agoI don’t have any data to back it up but I doubt that. Schools are still mostly using paper text books. And I reckon school libraries are still the main source of books for kids (who typically don’t have money to buy books). Family members who want to buy you a book as a gift, will do that on paper as gifting ebooks is trickier and less personal. To be honest, I would bet that the if younger demographics are reading less paper books it’s because they’re reading less generally rather than switching to digital.
- SanjayMehta 4y agoCollege students here are almost all using PDFs on their laptops. Especially engineering. Tried conducting an open book test this year and was met with consternation. Had to go with an open laptop test instead.
- petilon 4y agoUser Interface that is easy to imagine as a physical object is easier to figure out. It doesn't matter if the user is familiar with the physical object being emulated on the screen. Because laws of physics are still applicable even if you haven't seen such a physical object in real life. The human mind is always building models in our minds, based on observations of how things look and work, and then using those models to predict behaviors of things that we are yet to explore. For this to work well, appearance has to imply behavior. Instead of starting with a clean slate each time it would be helpful if we can leverage the mental models we have already built of the physical world. This is where skeuomorphism is helpful.
- defaulter4now 4y agoThat's a cheap assumption without any data to back it up. What does the 3D animation cost in terms of CPU power?
- peterkelly 4y agoI don't expect this will happen. There's a good reason why floppy disks are no longer used, but I would be surprised if physical books ever go away. Personally, as much as I like the convenience of digital books, there's nothing quite like the reading experience that comes with a printed physical book.
- lxgr 4y agoSure, but how much closer to the physical book reading experience does a page flip animation really get us? In my experience, what makes a digital reading app pleasant to use are other things: Responsiveness, choice of default fonts, whether or not it allows the publisher to apply ridiculous style overrides (e.g. forcing the background to be light grey even in night mode), not losing track of pagination at chapter boundaries (so that flipping back across a boundary, paragraphs don't mysteriously shift up or down half a page)... I'll take a reading app that does these things well, but only uses a simple slide animation over one that imitates a perfect page flip, but otherwise botches the concept of a "page", any day.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoOn the contrary, I much prefer reading from a tablet or a smartphone. Unlike printed books, they glow in the dark!
- Retric 4y agoGlowing in the dark is as much a bug as a feature. Lit screens work best in a dark room, where a reading light is more pleasant when you pause reading to do something else. I spend an inordinate amount of time either turning lights on an off or trying to use the not quite sufficient tablet screen to do stuff.
- real-dino 4y agoI use a headtorch, and then end up staying awake for 2 hours after.
- Tagbert 4y ago
- NotACop182 4y agoThere is something about owning a book and having your own hard library. I love to do almost everything on the phone; news, tv, videos, Ect. Reading from a book however is a better experience than a lit up screen. Audiobooks However have a place as less and less people have the attention span to physically hold something and read it.
- cokeandpepsi 4y agoTBH I like the animation because it prevents accidental page flips for whatever reason