Reading Kress article online because I was desperate for time its a good thing as I know that I can do it (online reading). I had his article on my laptop screen and Ipod touch for my notes while reading. It’s different than what I normally do when reading on paper but I have adapt my methods accordingly. However, I have to plug in my laptop compared to paper it is more portable as I can take the papers with me and don’t have to worry about running out of power, plus paper is less heavy than my laptop. Also if you carrying a book you look more studious than carrying a laptop? There is an ebook application/system that we(Northampton College) subscribed which allows you to highlight text and scribble notes next to it. I have yet to try it and was dissappointed tonite as I can’t access the site using my login. So that’s technology which can fail you at times – 24/7 – NOT!
Kress also mentioned about online writing where the role of an author and reader cannot be distinguished. Readers now are allowed to contribute for example Wikipedia. And also where author/designer have no control of how and where a reader might use the entry point to the reading in contract with book author dictates the entry point. I disagreed as I use the index of a book a lot especially to demonstrate to students there are cross-referencing between a book with another book of a different subject. It’s just that the index is placed at the back of a book compared to website where readers are presented with the index at the homepage – the first page of the website.
A picture worth a thousand words – I could not have agreed more.
