{"id":5816,"date":"2012-05-23T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2012-05-23T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T10:11:10","slug":"the-evolution-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-evolution-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Evolution of Books&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an article by novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nick_Harkaway\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Harkaway<\/a> on &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/welovethisbook.com\/features\/nick-harkaway-evolution-books\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of Books<\/a>&#8216;, I was struck by what sounds like a very fitting description of bookleteer, particularly in the light of last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/new-feature-bookleteer-online-bookreader\/\" target=\"_blank\">bookreader<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/new-ebook-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">QR code<\/a> updates.<\/p>\n<p>After concocting a brilliant, Terry Pratchett inspired scenario for future book technologies to diffuse any stale printed vs digital debates, Harkaway outlines what he believes is the real manifesto for books:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;What is the future of the book? A physical object which communicates with the digital realm; a paper book which has an electronic shadow. A hybrid which sits easily in the on and offline world. \u2028&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Couldn&#8217;t have put it better myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an article by novelist Nick Harkaway on &#8216;The Evolution of Books&#8216;, I was struck by what sounds like a very fitting description of bookleteer, particularly in the light of last year&#8217;s bookreader and QR code updates. After concocting a brilliant, Terry Pratchett inspired scenario for future book technologies to diffuse any stale printed vs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5,17,337,159],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-bookleteer","tag-ebooks","tag-inspiration","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5827,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}