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Things become other things : a walking memoir
\"Photographer and essayist Craig Mod is a veteran of long solo walks. But in 2021, during the pandemic shutdown of Japan's borders, one particular walk around the Kumano Kodō routes--the ancient pilgrimage paths of Japan's southern Kii Peninsula--took on an unexpectedly personal new significance. Mod found himself reflecting on his own childhood in a post-industrial American town, his experiences as an adoptee, his unlikely relocation to Japan at nineteen, and his relationship with one lost friend, whose life was tragically cut short after their paths diverged. For Mod, the walk became a tool to bear witness to a quiet grace visible only when \"you're bored out of your skull and the miles left are long.\" Tracing a 300-mile-long journey, Things Become Other Things folds together history, literature, poetry, Shinto and Buddhist spirituality, and contemporary rural life in Japan via dozens of conversations with aging fishermen, multi-generational inn owners, farmers, and kissaten cafe \"mamas.\" Along the way, Mod communes with mountain fauna, marvels over evidence of bears and boars, and hopscotches around leeches. He encounters whispering priests and foul-mouthed little kids who ask him, \"Just what the heck are you, anyway?\" Through sharp prose and his curious archive of photographs, he records evidence of floods and tsunamis, the disappearance of village life on the peninsula, and the capricious fecundity of nature.\"-- Amazon.com.
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The Digital Reading Experience: Learning from Interaction Design and UX-Usability Experts
Now that e-books and digital devices are active in the marketplace, publishers need to incorporate usability and user experience research and practice in their development process. Interaction design and UX research is well established in technology-driven industries; publishers have much to learn from these experts, for the betterment of their digital product and eventually, broader adoption of e-books by their customers. This article highlights the work and opinions of three UX, research and design practitioners as a first step in launching a tidal exchange of knowledge and ideas.
Journal Article
Los libros, el futuro de un clasico
CIUDAD DE MEXICO (CNNExpansion) -- El libro digital no es el futuro de la lectura, es el presente. La discusion romantica sobre los lectores electronicos y la defensa del libro impreso se ha ido desvaneciendo en los ultimos anos. Despues de todo, no es tan dificil prever cual sera la evolucion de dispositivos como el Kindle de Amazon o el Sony Reader como lo es tratar de adelantarnos a lo que sera un cambio del ejercicio de la lectura como accion cultural. Ademas de agregar elementos graficos, audio e imagen a un libro, los lectores digitales socializan aun mas el proceso de lectura, refiere este centro de analisis. No es solo la posibilidad de compartir en las redes sociales los libros o las citas de las obras que se leen, ademas se puede subrayar sobre los textos y dialogar en tiempo real con otros lectores que han opinado sobre el mismo libro. El concepto de libro digital no implica solo \"traducir\" el formato fisico a bits que se puedan introducir en un dispositivo. \"No se trata solo de poner el texto en pantallas\", dice [Craig Mod] en su blog personal.
Newsletter
Ideas for the future of publishing take shape
The phrase \"digital skeuomorphism\" has gained currency in recent years as a way of describing the trend for software interfaces to mimic their real-life counterparts - with calendar apps looking like a physical filofax, or a list of ebooks that appear to sit on a bookshelf. It's a widely criticised approach, and [Craig Mod] points out that that the trend isn't restricted to the look and feel of the magazine apps. Among the first to take advantage of these new possibilities was Marco Arment, the US developer who created the \"read-later\" service Instapaper. Seeing the possibilities created by iPad's AppStore and Newsstand, he created The Magazine - a fortnightly magazine that costs $1.99 per month, downloads automatically to your iPad or iPhone and features writing on a variety of topics. In his introductory essay, Arment wrote: \"I don't consider The Magazine to be a member of 'the magazine industry' any more than blogs are members of 'the publishing industry'. Those terms evoke the old and established, while this is the new and experimental.\"
Newspaper Article
Shaken, Not Stirred: Belvedere Vodka Launches Global Campaign With Daniel Craig
Trade Publication Article
