http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/04/03/clickable-fiction-doesnt-click-with-me/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:12:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/04/03/clickable-fiction-doesnt-click-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-180376 Will the Future Novel be More than Text on a Page? - BuzzYA! Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:33:56 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/04/03/clickable-fiction-doesnt-click-with-me/#comment-180376 [...] about Penguin's Google Maps-based novel mashup in April, Booklist's Keir Graff wrote, "It's an odd sensation, really: simple words can evoke a world in our imaginations, but as soon as [...] [...] about Penguin’s Google Maps-based novel mashup in April, Booklist’s Keir Graff wrote, “It’s an odd sensation, really: simple words can evoke a world in our imaginations, but as soon as [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/04/03/clickable-fiction-doesnt-click-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-180375 Will the Future Novel be More than Text on a Page? | The | Kevin | Pipe Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:33:14 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/04/03/clickable-fiction-doesnt-click-with-me/#comment-180375 [...] about Penguin's Google Maps-based novel mashup in April, Booklist's Keir Graff wrote, "It's an odd sensation, really: simple words can evoke a world in our imaginations, but as soon as [...] [...] about Penguin’s Google Maps-based novel mashup in April, Booklist’s Keir Graff wrote, “It’s an odd sensation, really: simple words can evoke a world in our imaginations, but as soon as [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/04/03/clickable-fiction-doesnt-click-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-115514 Love it or Hate It: Penguin’s Putting Books on Twitter and Google Maps - BuzzYA! Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:19:28 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/04/03/clickable-fiction-doesnt-click-with-me/#comment-115514 [...] Booklist's Keir Graff writes of the effort, "Well, it beats cell-phone novels, but I still don’t think this is the fiction-delivery vehicle for me...It’s an odd sensation, really: simple words can evoke a world in our imaginations, but as soon as the words are married to real-world images, they lose much of their power. Similarly, it can be fun to look at a map and imagine what the places really look like, but here, the Google satellite view just made me frustrated because I wanted to see what the place really looks like at street level and inside the buildings." [...] [...] Booklist’s Keir Graff writes of the effort, “Well, it beats cell-phone novels, but I still don’t think this is the fiction-delivery vehicle for me…It’s an odd sensation, really: simple words can evoke a world in our imaginations, but as soon as the words are married to real-world images, they lose much of their power. Similarly, it can be fun to look at a map and imagine what the places really look like, but here, the Google satellite view just made me frustrated because I wanted to see what the place really looks like at street level and inside the buildings.” [...]

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