remember the vook? the upstart champion of the digital book revolution? it was the future in 2009. who wouldn't want to combine "amazing stories" with "powerful videos" for a cheap and distracting new reading experience?
i had very honestly forgotten about the concept until reading that the vook company had recently secured $5.25 million in new financing, which caused me to remember asking reif larsen, whose 2009 book the selected works of t.s. spivet is as close as you can get to a vook in print, what he thought about the incorporation of sound clips and videos into a text and what he thought those additions would do to writing. he answered something about his brother having different intelligences. (i think maybe he might have been unemployed.) i hesitatingly paid my share of support for larsen's historic $900000 advance and had him sign it. since then i've picked it up once to pack it for a move. i won't have a reader to watch the vook if ever it comes out, but i'd probably watch the trailer.
later in the afternoon, it cheered me up to see a man with a whole pig slung over his shoulder walking from a van to one of the few chinese restaurants left in china town. it's nice to see that some people understand the value of doing things the old way.
also, this post title is copyrighted. i'ma write a vook. does anyone have an in with hilary swank?
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