Believe it now?
In some ways, it's creepy, but I keep thinking about all the cool reading games we'll make! Reading a book is already an intimate experience -- imagine how much closer the reader and the author will become when every book can also be a game!
I have to say this is one of the first applications that seperate eBooks from books which I really dig (and I don't find it creppy at all). If this techniques are deployed in a affordable reader, I might actually get one!
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Trophy Books - books that are most frequently purchased, but never actually read.
Burning the midnight oil - books that keep people up late at night.
Read Speed - which books/authors/genres have the lowest word-per-minute average reading rate?
Do readers of Glenn Beck read faster or slower than readers of Jon Stewart?
http://musicmachinery.com/2010/03/26/spying-on-how-we-read/
You might have already seen this, but if you haven't check it out.
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It could be the next big thing, or it could just be a cool concept. Either way, integrating technology with our bodies is probably right around the corner
They should implement that into every English class in the USA right now. I can't count how many people I run across who don't have a basic concept of their own language and I do believe a lot of this has to do with what they actually did in English class and what they skimmed or scraped by with.
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