{"id":1408,"date":"2010-07-26T09:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T08:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2010-07-22T17:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:56:39","slug":"james-bridle-bookcubes-and-bookleteer-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/james-bridle-bookcubes-and-bookleteer-api\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bridle: Bookcubes and bookleteer API"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA set of Bookcubes generated using the bookleteer API<\/em><\/p>\n

James Bridle of booktwo.org<\/a> was one of the participants at the Pitch Up and Publish: Augmented Reading<\/a><\/a> a couple of weeks ago, and he talked a little about the idea of books as symbols and the related BookCube project he’d done using the bookleteer API.<\/p>\n

Here, I’ll just give a summary of the project. James has written a post on booktwo.org<\/a> describing the project which I really recommend you to read because it’s seriously interesting and covers more topics than I describe here…<\/p>\n

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James started with the idea that the lifespan of a book looks something like the drawing in the image above. There is a short period of the book-as-object acting as it’s own advertisement, then a period of time where you are reading the book and taking in the content, then during the final, and longest, amount of time the book-as-object acts as a souvenir of the reading period.<\/p>\n

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James has already begun to address the idea of digital souvenirs for eBooks with his bkkeepr<\/a> project and with the bookleteer API he extended this to create automatically generated Bookcubes. These cubes display the information collected by bkkeepr and includes an image of the book cover. Over time James imagines the Bookcubes to build up on your shelf as a visible and tangible souvenir of your eBook reading. For bookleteer, this is an interesting tangent – instead of being an object to read it becomes an object that marks the fact that reading has taken place – and the content becomes separated from the form.<\/p>\n

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A set of Bookcubes generated using the bookleteer API James Bridle of booktwo.org was one of the participants at the Pitch Up and Publish: Augmented Reading a couple of weeks ago, and he talked a little about the idea of books as symbols and the related BookCube project he’d done using the bookleteer API. Here, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,41,68],"tags":[37,58,42,5,59,44,334,337],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-examples","category-inspiration","category-making","tag-api","tag-augmented","tag-book","tag-bookleteer","tag-cube","tag-electronic","tag-examples","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}