E-Books
This week in school we have been looking at E-Books i researched two different types E-Books and found out a few things about them, i then compaired them:
The First E-Book:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2372172/Swimmers-Ear-Magazine-18 (ipaper)
Description – iPaper lets you to publish your brochures, catalogues and other printed material on the internet. Your content is presented in a nice and reader-friendly way that makes it easier for the reader to find his or her way around the material. My E-book is about Skateboarding and by using ipaper the booklet is interesting, helpful and allows readers to print, copy, find and enlarge any text, or specific pages. Ipaper also allows reader to format the page making it bigger, smaller, book like, listed or even a slideshow.
Format – This E-Book is written in a document HTML format
Strengths –
· Light simple fast
· Free
· Viewed inside a web browser, doesn’t not require you to install additional software to view it
· Scroll bar
· Fits full width of document also has zoom control to change this, can adjust height or width
· Document navigation buttons
· Page number indicator
· Tile mode button
· Can copy text by using the select text button
· Can search a word or phrase
· Full screen mode
· Different view modes (list mode, book mode and slide mode)
· Easy to share, can share a link to a friend from ipaper
· Document information
· Can print it
Weaknesses –
· Cannot copy text if it has been scanned into the document
· Cannot copy pictures to your own document
Purpose of E-Book – This E-Book has been created to help skateboarders. The book highlights key facts of skateboarding and why the author loves it so much, giving tips and points for readers to follow. Pictures of companies and designers which support skateboarding have also been included, helping reader decide on styles and designs. The author has also included personal information on his favourite music, brands and styles influencing readers.
Does it fulfil its purpose? – The website uses a new funky format which is easy to use and understand, interesting all readers. The images attract readers and help show how certain things are completed. The book offers a variety of facts and information to suit all users. Readers can easily locate the book, scroll down, change the appearance and find to certain pages or words in the book, which is very helpful. The layout of the book however can be very crowded on certain pages and tends to clutter a page with too much information. The E-Book has simply been uploaded into ipaper allowing readers to access it.
Description – iPaper lets you to publish your brochures, catalogues and other printed material on the internet. Your content is presented in a nice and reader-friendly way that makes it easier for the reader to find his or her way around the material. My E-book is about Skateboarding and by using ipaper the booklet is interesting, helpful and allows readers to print, copy, find and enlarge any text, or specific pages. Ipaper also allows reader to format the page making it bigger, smaller, book like, listed or even a slideshow.
Format – This E-Book is written in a document HTML format
Strengths –
· Light simple fast
· Free
· Viewed inside a web browser, doesn’t not require you to install additional software to view it
· Scroll bar
· Fits full width of document also has zoom control to change this, can adjust height or width
· Document navigation buttons
· Page number indicator
· Tile mode button
· Can copy text by using the select text button
· Can search a word or phrase
· Full screen mode
· Different view modes (list mode, book mode and slide mode)
· Easy to share, can share a link to a friend from ipaper
· Document information
· Can print it
Weaknesses –
· Cannot copy text if it has been scanned into the document
· Cannot copy pictures to your own document
Purpose of E-Book – This E-Book has been created to help skateboarders. The book highlights key facts of skateboarding and why the author loves it so much, giving tips and points for readers to follow. Pictures of companies and designers which support skateboarding have also been included, helping reader decide on styles and designs. The author has also included personal information on his favourite music, brands and styles influencing readers.
Does it fulfil its purpose? – The website uses a new funky format which is easy to use and understand, interesting all readers. The images attract readers and help show how certain things are completed. The book offers a variety of facts and information to suit all users. Readers can easily locate the book, scroll down, change the appearance and find to certain pages or words in the book, which is very helpful. The layout of the book however can be very crowded on certain pages and tends to clutter a page with too much information. The E-Book has simply been uploaded into ipaper allowing readers to access it.
The second E-Book:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/well_mannered_war/index.shtml
Description – BBC has uploaded a series of Doctor Who books online so that readers can easily access the books freely. The website is easy to use and clear to readers. This E-Book allows readers to find pages and chapters of the book directly, it also allows you to print the pages out or copy it to your own document.
Format – This E-Book is written in a document HTML format
Strengths –
· Can locate each chapter and page
· Easy to read
· Simple
· Can print it
· Can copy text
· Include hyperlinks to the next page and to the previous page
· Includes picture
· Free
Weaknesses –
· Cannot adjust the size of the writing
· Have to use a scroll bar
· Cannot share the link directly
Purpose of E-Book – The E-Book allows all reader to access the Doctor Who books online. The E-book includes a number of books from the series helping readers to find them.
Does it fulfil its purpose? – The website allows readers to easily access the series of books; therefore it fulfils its purpose. The text on the page is easy to read and a decent size font, however you cannot adjust this. The pictures are new and up-to-date, keeping readers interested and helping make the book more presentable.
Overall
Overall I prefer the ipaper E-Book as I find it much more appealing. The context is far more interesting and the images used are more creative, over all the book looks better. The ipaper also offers a number of tools which allow us as users to copy, print, share, and find certain parts of the book. The book view can be changed accordingly and there are many ways to locate certain areas, this can be very helpful to readers.
2 comments:
very good and informative,
makes the rest of us look dumb =]
Swimmer's Ear is the magazine I co-edit. thanks for using us as an example!
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