{"id":993,"date":"2007-06-04T01:02:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T01:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2007-06-04T01:02:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T01:02:21","slug":"cache_me_if_you_can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/cache_me_if_you_can\/","title":{"rendered":"cache me if you can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Teleread, David Rothman has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/blog\/?p=6635\">pair<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/blog\/?p=6644\">posts<\/a> about Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/googlereader.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/oh-sam-i-am-can-i-read-it-on-tram.html\">new desktop RSS reader<\/a> and a couple of new technologies for creating &#8220;offline web applications&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/gears.google.com\/\">Google Gears<\/a> and Adobe <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/apollo\/\">Apollo<\/a>), tying them all together into an interesting speculation about the possibility of offline networked books. This would mean media-rich, hypertextual books that could cache some or all of their remote elements and be experienced whole (or close to whole) without a network connection, leveraging the local power of the desktop. <a href=\"http:\/\/sophieproject.org\/\">Sophie<\/a> already does this to a limited degree, caching remote movies for a brief period after unplugging.<br \/>\nElectronic reading is usually prey to a million distractions and digressions, but David&#8217;s idea suggests an interesting alternative: you take a chunk of the network offline with you for a more sustained, &#8220;bounded&#8221; engagement. We already do this with desktop email clients and RSS readers, which allow us to browse networked content offline. This could be expanded into a whole new way of reading (and writing) networked books. Having your own copy of a networked document. Seems this should be a basic requirement for any dedicated e-reader worth its salt, to be able to run rich web applications with an &#8220;offline&#8221; option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Teleread, David Rothman has a pair of posts about Google&#8217;s new desktop RSS reader and a couple of new technologies for creating &#8220;offline web applications&#8221; (Google Gears and Adobe Apollo), tying them all together into an interesting speculation about the possibility of offline networked books. This would mean media-rich, hypertextual books that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,755,1576,1629,1745,1861,2003],"tags":[2971],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-google","category-reading","category-rss","category-sophie","category-the_networked_book","category-web_applications","tag-the_networked_book-reading-rss-google-web_applications-books-sophie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}