Breaking the Page

Design

Author : Peter Meyers
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Genre : Design
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Book Rating : 209/5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Breaking the Page by : Peter Meyers

Download or read book Breaking the Page written by Peter Meyers. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do books need to change as they move from paper to screen? I've written "Breaking the Page" to answer that question. My investigation isn't a blank survey of what technology makes possible. It's a study conducted on behalf of those who care most about books: writers and readers. I cover the fundamental aspects of the reading experience. How we become aware of books and what's inside them; how we comprehend, retain, and recall what we have read; how we share with others the parts we love. As a guidebook "Breaking the Page" aims to serve those with a professional interest in bookmaking. I have included many specific design ideas, including new kinds of opening sequences, text and video integration techniques, and multi-scale document designs. But I think general interest readers will find the discussion worth their attention. The transformation of the book has implications that range from the personal to the political. Books shape how we raise our kids. They control how ideas spread and how we change the kind of person we have become. Understanding this epic shift from paper to screen... - what we gain, - what we lose, - what is to be done ...is a topic worthy of its own book.

Breaking the Page: Preview Edition

2011-12-02 Computers

Author : Peter Meyers
Release : 2011-12-02
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Breaking the Page: Preview Edition by : Peter Meyers

Download or read book Breaking the Page: Preview Edition written by Peter Meyers. This book was released on 2011-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Multimedia” and “interactivity" are the poster kids for ebooks' potential, but how do they really make books better? Breaking the Page delivers an inspirational answer, filled with real-world examples that demonstrate how innovators are fulfilling screen publishing's promise without botching the reading experience. Every digital book ingredient gets a deep-tissue inspection. From navigational dashboards to new kinds of indexes, from animated typography to stop-motion tutorials, Breaking the Page maps out how to conceive reader-friendly productions. Above all, it's a skeptic's design guide—as much about what to leave out as what to put in. It will challenge you to think about adding enhancements not simply because you can but, instead, only when you should. Coverage includes advice on how to: Integrate audio, links, and motion so they partner with prose rather than distract from it Design content to match the reader’s mindset—from info snackers to patient perusers Compose for the traditional page as well as the “infinite canvas” Instrument “smarter” books that aid memory and assist comprehension Conceive multi-state graphics and customizable charts Embed social tools to harness reader enthusiasm while respecting their need to focus Make sense of everything from eInk to ePub, and from app books to books in browsers This free Preview Edition is a three-chapter sampling of the full book. You'll find thought-provoking looks at why readers browse, navigate, and search, and the unique ways that digital productions can service these needs. Loaded with best practice case studies, this book belongs on the screen of anyone who cares about how we will communicate ideas in the 21st century.

Critical Incident: A gripping and heart-breaking page-turner

2020-08-11 Fiction

Author : TL Dyer
Release : 2020-08-11
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Critical Incident: A gripping and heart-breaking page-turner written by TL Dyer. This book was released on 2020-08-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good and bad. Right and wrong. Decent and indecent. The line that separates them is thinner than you think. PC Steve Fuller has served as an officer for over twenty years. There’s nothing he hasn’t seen, nothing he can’t deal with. He might be closing in on forty but he’s still in good shape, his head on straight, his instincts sharp. Or so he thinks. Until Anna Johnson. Hours before washing her dried blood from his body, Steve holds the young woman’s hand in the wreckage of the car, comforting her as best as one stranger to another can in the most critical moment of her life. He’s the last person she’ll see. She’s another tragic victim of the road. Another fatality. At the end of another shift. Except she won’t go away. Pale blue eyes and porcelain skin framed by ebony hair haunt his sleep at night and his conscience during the day. Compelled to find out more about what, or who, caused Anna to lose control of the car that night, Steve goes looking for answers. But they’re not easy to find. And the more he tries to do right, the more everyone tells him he’s wrong, until – piece by piece – he can’t be entirely sure of the difference any more. As the autopilot driving his life falters – colleagues questioning his decisions, physical sensations he can’t control, thoughts that leave him uneasy – the truth about Anna Johnson begins to unravel. And it’s nothing like he expects. Critical Incident is a gripping and heart-breaking page-turner, and the first book in the Code Zero police drama series This book was previously published under the title No Further Action "A wonderfully touching and powerful story." "A must read for anyone who likes deep, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, explorations of the human condition." "Had me engaged from the start"

Breaking Ground

2003-01-01 Gardening

Author : Page Dickey
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Gardening
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 388/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Breaking Ground written by Page Dickey. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since Martha Schinz's masterful Visions of Paradise, published in 1984, has there been such an important survey of garden design and style as Breaking Ground. Whereas Visions of Paradise featured classic European garden design, Breaking Ground takes an in-depth look at the work of ten contemporary garden designers living and working in America and Europe today. The two hundred glorious full-color photographs by Erica Lennard and the lucid text by garden writer and designer Page Dickey capture the spirit and genius of the ten designers. A chapter is devoted to each designer--his or her sources of inspiration, style, philosophy, and method of creation. From the bold Southern California designs of Nancy Power to the urban geometries of Madison Cox to the updated French formal style of Louis Benech to the romantic country gardens of Nancy McCabe, Breaking Ground profiles the artists who are redefining garden design categories. Inspirational, informative, contemporary, and beautiful, Breaking Ground is a spectacularly crafted object in itself--sure to be one of the major garden gift books of the season.

Breaking the Book

2015-06-15 Literary Criticism

Author : Laura Mandell
Release : 2015-06-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 555/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Breaking the Book by : Laura Mandell

Download or read book Breaking the Book written by Laura Mandell. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities. Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities' Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities

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