Tag Archives: iPad

The BeBook Blues

Fei An Tjan | 18 October 2010, 12:18 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Last years have been devout to digital publishing and the e-readers. The media made it seem that it was the new big thing and even my mother was considering an iPad. Because I was always annoyed by the enormous spillage of paper during my studies, I too thought it might be time for some digitization of my personal life:…

Digital Comics: Not as Invincible as They Could Be

Ronen Shay | 18 October 2010, 2:40 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As a Toronto born comic book fan, I’ve probably visited my local comic book shop, Cyber City Comix, once a week for the last fifteen years. Every Wednesday I would go by and pick up the latest issues of Batman, Green Lantern, and the Avengers. The owner of the store, Darryl and I would shoot the shit, discussing our…

Electronic Paper to the Rescue!

Bob Nefkens | 17 October 2010, 10:08 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,


Digital publishing is trying to replace centuries of ink printed publishing, however many people are still skeptical to this idea of digital publishing, and remain loyal to the ‘old’ book, mostly because they don’t like reading off a computer screen. Could electronic paper be the saviour?

iPad Challenges Authentic Bed Time Stories

Jorien De Wandeler | 17 October 2010, 7:01 pm | tags: , ,

When I saw my little niece getting read aloud by my uncle’s iPad, I wondered how this could affect the way she is being raised. If iPads and other digital devises take over the task of parents, would it cause the alienation of children from their parents?

Global debates are being held about the emergence of machines in our…

Will our gadgets ever really converge?

Cendy Calis | 17 October 2010, 6:36 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Yo dawg, I heard you like e-mail, so we put e-mail on your Macbook, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, so you can e-mail while you e-mail! Substitute the word e-mail with, music, movies, chat, e-reading, calling and video recording, and the meme would still work in most cases. While right now the Ipad isn’t equiped with a camera, other tablets…

iPad vs. e-reader

Xander Stolwijk | 17 October 2010, 6:26 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Since 13 juli in the Netherlands the battle between the long expected iPad and several e-readers has started. But what are actually the downsides of the iPad as an e-reader or the downsides of an e-reader as an iPad? Let’s find out!

If it Looks Like a Book, and Reads Like a Book, is it a Book?

Marte Lindstrom | 17 October 2010, 5:42 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

The death of the book has been foreseen:  Several sources have predicted the demise of the book as we know it, like a modern Nostradamus. However, this is not the first time in history that we have heard this prediction. The introduction of the radio was also supposed to kill the book, as was the advent of …

Out with the bookcase: More living space, even more books!

Hans Terpstra | 16 October 2010, 6:30 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Let me tell you a story about my sister. Isn’t that a good introduction to a blog, share a story with complete strangers online involving private family matters? Though she may not like it, I won’t give her name or anything, and more importantly, I have this feeling that a lot people these days resemble her situation and we’re still…

E-readers and e-books for education

Anne Lukas | 16 October 2010, 4:29 pm | 8 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Firstly, I need to say that I love to read and I love technology. So isn’t an e-reader the perfect combination of both? Isn’t it the perfect compromise between the small screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch and the chunky format of a regular book? In my opinion, yes! I believe that in the future the e-reader will be…

How do you like them Apples?

Frank Molenaar | 12 September 2010, 9:00 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Apple is back from the dead. How does Apple try to get on top of Microsoft? How do they take this advertising war and how are they promoting their products? Apple has a very strong fanbase and they have some pretty unique products but how do these hold up in the end? Are they really as revolutionairy as Jobs and his colleagues claim and is the way in which they try to win people over from other OS’es to Mac valid or are they basing it on stereotypes and myths?