How book-shaped should books be?
I love the word skeuomorphic. Skew-O-Morphic. It sounds like a twisted kind of superpower. In fact, it means a design that resembles a material or technology...
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Interactivity interupts immersion?
At the Observer, Anna Baddeley looked at an iPad version of The Thirty-Nine Steps. She concludes: I find interactivity exasperating. Prod, prod, prod to reve...
Hello
Hello. This is Book Shape. Anachronistic or not, I have to kick off with this book technology related sketch.
Novel thoughts about Cloud Atlas
The stories of Cloud Atlas are accessibly written. They are, to use a pejorative term, readable. Each is a complete, albeit interrupted, tale and can be read...
A story about the last time a pope ab...
In 1294 Pope Celestine V abdicated after just five months on the job. The real story, which doesn’t end happily, is worth reading on Wikipedia. It is also re...
SF and prediction
Last week I happened on an interesting Guardian blog piece by Jenny Rohn that discussed speculative fiction that ‘gets it wrong’. So I reflex-posted to Faceb...
Presently tense
I was going to call this post Present Tension.. but then I noticed an article by John August that has already taken the name. Drats. But with good reason, it...
Philip Roth is not Manny Stain
So it seems Philip Roth isn’t on Twitter (via The Millions). His ‘official’ Twitter account is a fake.