{"id":1414,"date":"2010-07-28T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T08:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2010-07-22T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:57:24","slug":"how-can-you-have-a-pop-up-book-on-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/how-can-you-have-a-pop-up-book-on-the-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you have a pop-up book on the iPad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the question I typed into Google as I wondered how the iPad, Kindle and other eBook readers (or rather, developers of eBooks for these platforms) might accommodate the tangible properties of books such as size, paper type, pop-up illustrations and so on, that vary from book to book and make paper books such a pleasure to touch, hold and feel.<\/p>\n

In answer to my question Google came up with a couple of examples of projects that claim to be bringing pop-up books to the iPad. The first is Pilgrim’s Progress by Tako Games. Although entirely computer-generated the video that accompanies this eBook suggests that Pilgrim’s Progress combines moving around a 3-dimensional scene that closely resembles a paper pop-up book (the ‘cover’ of the book is a very literal digitisation of an antique leather book) with some dynamic elements such as changing text within the text box. I found it difficult to tell from the video how much of this would be controlled by the reader.<\/p>\n

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The second suggestion by Google was Alice in Wonderland by AtomicAntelope<\/a>. While clearly drawing on pop-up books for inspiration this feels like it is also pushing the format into new areas by exploiting the touchscreen to trigger events and, quite beautifully, using the built-in accelerometer and orientation sensors to control visual effects such as flying cards, Alice growing and shrinking and rocking the pigbaby to sleep.<\/p>\n

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While I have to confess that watching the Alice in Wonderland video made me wish I owned an iPad so I could play with this, I also wonder – if every book feels like an electronic device then, however visually compelling the eBook, won’t this somehow feel like a sensory reduction of the reading experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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