A Next-Generation Digital Book - The Books Issue


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4.35 minutes

If you have a paper book in your hands, you can open it, close it, turn its pages... However, with a digital book new verbs come into action.
Watch the clip, find out how may things you can do with an e-reader and, afterwards, complete the text that follows.


 
  Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad -- with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with.





SUMMARY : Use the terms in the box to fill in the blanks.

pick up (2)  -    zoom into -  pinch and peak back  -    swipe through   
lift off   -   pop it  -  walk you through - zoom out to  -  open it up
scroll through  -   fold it back up 



We can open the book and .............................the chapters to browse the book.

We can ..............................the pages at the bottom and if we wanted to ............................................a page, we can just open it up.

Anything you see in the book, you can ............................................with two fingers and ....................................the page and open up.

And if you want to go back and read the book again, you just ...................................................and put it back on the page. You pick it up and ...........................................open.

The author can ...........................................and explain photos or illustrations. You can zoom into any of them and you can open footage and interactive animations.

We can ............................................at the page, we can .....................................the table of contents, and if you started reading on your iPad then you can .........................................where you left off on the iPhone.

You can pinch into any page to............................



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