This would be a book design that would allow people to flip
through a book in 10 seconds and get as much iinformation
as
possible. I was just at a book store and was thinking about
how all the books are designed to tease you but not give
you
the really useful information unless you buy the
book. So
maybe this could be done for books in the public domain.
Cover would be designed so you COULD judge a book by its
cover. Give away the big points on the cover. USE SIMPLE
WORDS. Point number 3 of the Universal Design Principles is
BE SIMPLE. Reduce all sentences to one line. Sentences
that
wrap are hard to get at high speed. Use as few words as
possible. I am not following that principle now since I am
thinking off the top of my head.
As I was flipping through my 100th book at the book store I
realized I had the motion down to one 10 second fluid
motion
whereby I pick up the book, glance at the cover, skim the
back, flip through the pages controlling the speed with my
thumb and put it down all in about 10 seconds, and that I
was
mostly using pictures, titles and chapter headings to get the
meaning out of the book. So what if the Chapter headings
were biggest, and next biggest were sub chapter headings
and
next biggest were sub-sub-chapter headings on down -- to
optimize the book for being read in 10 seconds.
Use the flip aspect of the book. The movie frame
phenomena
that happens when you flip through a book could be
incorporated so that there was a moving picture aspect to
it,
while captions could flash by for a couple of pages each.
Haviing books like this would be much more interactive than
a
computer where choosing things is like feeling your way
around the world with one finger. (choosing things with a
mouse) Flipping through a book is a much more 3D
experience. Maybe sound could be incorporated too --
maybe
there is some way to shape the corners of the pages of the
book so that when you flip through it that fluttering sound is
molded into the sound of a recorded snippet, or melody --
ok
thats a long shot.
I guess the basic thing would be optimizing a book so you
could
get the most out of it in 10 seconds and then giving a person
a
whole book store of these books to go through -- that would
be
a much more interactive experience than anything you
could
do on a computer screen.