My visible “digital broken spine indicators” from the last book I read (written in HTML):

10%

10.0%
45% 45.0%
60% 60.0%
90% 90.0%
100% 100.0%

Thinking about making one-to-one and onto simulacra of physical book objects into the digital space can certainly be a useful design experiment. Similarly we have to ask what else is now also possible? What might we be able to do with the additional data in terms of the “corpus linguistics of reading”, or “distant reading”?

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broken spines, dog-eared chapters, marginalia

What the digital equivalent of the first two here? xAPI data about time spend reading, where readers scrolled, clicked, etc.? —Jeremy Dean Dec 5, 2016¹

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tags:

links: e-books distant reading reading corpus linguistics books

• broader terms (BT): user interface
• narrower terms (NT): annotation tools
• related terms (RT):
• used for (UF) or aliases:

connected ideas:

MOC:

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1. What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text | syndication link↩︎

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