{"id":997,"date":"2007-06-18T02:43:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T02:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=997"},"modified":"2007-06-18T02:43:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T02:43:57","slug":"design_proposal_for_ipodbased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/design_proposal_for_ipodbased\/","title":{"rendered":"design proposal for ipod-based e-book reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email the other day from the fellow who made this: an interesting proposal and, incidentally, a clever use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sketchup.com\/\">Google SketchUp<\/a> for modeling gadgets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The central thesis is that, unlike the Sony Librie or other tablets currently available, a dual-screen reader with a dock for the iPod is the most viable design for a) popularizing the use of an ebook reader and b) streamlining the use of an ebook store.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s interested in getting feedback so leave your two cents.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xkEhOEx6rKc\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xkEhOEx6rKc\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email the other day from the fellow who made this: an interesting proposal and, incidentally, a clever use of Google SketchUp for modeling gadgets. The central thesis is that, unlike the Sony Librie or other tablets currently available, a dual-screen reader with a dock for the iPod is the most viable design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,467,548,901,1573,1576,1669,1713,1956],"tags":[2363],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-design","category-ebook","category-ipod","category-reader","category-reading","category-screenreading","category-sketchup","category-video","tag-ebook-reader-reading-apple-ipod-screenreading-design-sketchup-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}