Quotes+Regarding+eReaders

R. David Lankes (rdlankes@iis.syr.edu) is director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, NY, an associate professor in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and director of the school’s library science program.
 * "If you, as a school, public, or indeed any librarian, see your primary responsibility as being the books and other material on your shelves, shame on you. Our duty is to the reader and the community that comes seeking that book or Web page. And right now that responsibility requires you to look beyond the technology offered us and imagine and demand what our communities need."**

From eSchool News: Text 2.0. “As eReading devices and the software that runs them become more advanced in an increasingly competitive market, researchers are creating applications that could take reading to a whole new level, with tools such as Text 2.0—a reading technology that personalizes the user’s experience by tracking eye movements. Text 2.0 uses infrared light and a camera to track eye movement across a screen, and it uses this information to infer a user’s intentions during the course of reading. For example, taking more time to read certain words, phrases, or names could trigger the appearance of sound effects, footnotes, translations, biographies, definitions, or animations. If the user begins skimming the text, the tracker will begin fading out words it deems less important to the text. If the reader glances away, a bookmark automatically appears, pointing to where the user stopped reading.”