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ark_ader:
Looks good to me.  Nice job!  :applaud:

shmokes:
Is that on the App Store?  I saw a video of it online, but I thought Samuel L. Jackson messed up the the delivery.  It started out hilarious, but then he stopped deadpanning it and got all the exasperation in his voice and it lost its humor.

Thanks for the suggestions.  As for the longevity of digital books, what Howard and drventure said makes no sense to me at all.  Why would your digital books not last as long as physical books?  They literally never wear out.  Ever.  And you carry your entire library with you everywhere you go, rather than, for example, boxing up your golden books.  It seems similar to thinking digital music will never fly because you still have the records you had as a kid boxed up in the attic.

drventure:
True enough, technically speaking, the digital copies would never wear out.

I'm more concerned about file formats, and such. For instance, music files are strictly data. And the formats at this point are fairly well established.

The online book apps are +apps+. Ie they're essentially games, just with a lot of reading in them.

There aren't many games for win98 that I can run successfully on Win7.

Now, if they were straight PDF's, or plain ol' text files, I'd be more inclined to believe they'll still be usable in 10-20 years. But straight PDf's and text files aren't exactly "interactive"  :)

But hey, at the end of the day, reading to kids is good, period. And I'd be willing to bet there'll be a lot of people plunking down cash for those online app books as tablets become more and more popular, regardless of whether they'll be able to hand those books down to they're kids' kids.

fallacy:
For me it would be a site that I would click the back button as soon as I entered it.  I see useless text everywhere my eyes can’t lock on anything... it’s one of those sites.

shmokes:
Can you be more specific?  Like, if you were a parent specifically seeking reviews of iPad apps for your kids, can you give me examples of some of the stuff that would make you back out of my site and go elsewhere?  I actually look at that site and see some pretty clean, uncluttered design.  There isn't even a single ad on the site at this point.  But it's hard to see the flaws in your own children, so I'm interested in what you all think.

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