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Today reading has successfully made the transition from paper to the dynamic medium of the computer screen and is becoming a common experience in the world of electronic media. And while the computer industry does everything to convince us that multimedia, will be the glorious future of electronic communication we convey most of our concepts by writing and reading, be it on the computer, be it on paper. The electronic book as a platform to read on a dynamic medium is still in a very early stage both in software and hardware and may look dramatically different from what we expect it to be at this stage. Still the book is the primary source for text and thus a container of memory.
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Brody, F. (1996). Books of the Next Generation — Reading on the Electronic Frontier. In: Brenner, W., Kolbe, L. (eds) The Information Superhighway and Private Households. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48423-0_9
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