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E-book publishing

Started by jibbajibba, January 13, 2012, 11:26:26 AM

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daniel_ream

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January 20, 2012, 02:25:22 AM
Quote from: Peregrin;504739The PDF and Kindle formats aren't really designed for the type of referencing you do in gaming, although hyperlinking helps.

An interesting little tidbit from research into how people interact with books: once you're familiar with the content of a reference work, your ability to locate information in it is highly dependent on your physical interaction with the book - i.e. about two thirds of the way through, halfway down the page, there was a major heading halfway up the opposite page, etc.  All this is positional cueing that ebooks currently don't provide.

This may be a generational thing; it will interesting to see what happens once we have a generation raised with primarily electronic texts.

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D&D is becoming Self-Referential.  It is no longer Setting Referential, where it takes references outside of itself. It is becoming like Ouroboros in its self-gleaning for tropes, no longer attached, let alone needing outside context.
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