Reading immaterial
In an interview with Rolling Stone last year, William Gibson said:
One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real.
Bear that dying distinction in mind when I tell you that Joe’s new book is out. It’s called Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours (geddit?). It’s all about spelling in Canadian English. If you buy it, you’ll get the book in HTML and PDF with very liberal licensing.
You can print it out if you want a physical artefact but it’s made to be read on-screen. If you fancy reading it on an iPhone or iPod Touch, I recommend getting the FileMagnet app which allows you to transfer files—including PDFs—from your computer to your i(Phone|Pod) over WiFi.
In the future, you’ll probably be able to just transfer the files directly to your brain.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 9:31pm
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