{"id":28039,"date":"2012-05-30T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/one-of-those-brilliant-idea-that-on-reflection-is-pretty-awful.html"},"modified":"2012-05-30T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:55:48","slug":"one-of-those-brilliant-idea-that-on-reflection-is-pretty-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/one-of-those-brilliant-idea-that-on-reflection-is-pretty-awful.html","title":{"rendered":"One of those brilliant idea that, on reflection, is pretty awful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t want a time-sensitive smart-novel.  I don&#39;t want to have the reading experience change each time I re-read the book.  I don&#39;t want writers having to write extra content to fit into my (and everyone else&#39;s) particular reading patterns.  I certainly don&#39;t want an ebook format that not only requires special technology to read, but to <i>process<\/i> &#8230; technology with even less guarantee to survive another few decades than PDF readers.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, pretty much a non-starter as far as I&#39;m concerned.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepassivevoice.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Faesthete%2Fimg%2Fheaders%2Fbook2.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/05\/2012\/treebook-a-new-time-triggered-e-book-format\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter'>TREEbook, a New Time-Triggered E-book Format  | The Passive Voice<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom Publishers Weekly: In a phone interview, Medallion president Adam Mock said the name of the new e-book format,TREEbook, stands for Timed Reading Experience E-Book, and said the technology goes fa&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/3iRGvSKzppx' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t want a time-sensitive smart-novel. I don&#39;t want to have the reading experience change each time I re-read the book. I don&#39;t want writers having to write extra content to fit into my (and everyone else&#39;s) particular reading patterns. I certainly don&#39;t want an ebook format that not only requires special technology to read, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/one-of-those-brilliant-idea-that-on-reflection-is-pretty-awful.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One of those brilliant idea that, on reflection, is pretty awful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10627,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/you_will.html","url_meta":{"origin":28039,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;You Will&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Dec-06 9:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Cool set of AT&T ads from 1993 about how cool technology would change the future ... 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