Realistic books: A bizarre homage to an obsolete medium?

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Realistic books: A bizarre homage to an obsolete medium?

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For many readers, handling a physical book is an enjoyably exquisite part of the information seeking process. Many physical characteristics of a book-its size, heft, the patina of use on its pages and so on-communicate ambient qualities of the document it represents. In contrast, the experience of accessing and exploring digital library documents is often dull. The emphasis is utilitarian; technophile rather than bibliophile. We have extended the page-turning algorithm we reported at last yea...

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Research paper

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Conference item

Date created

2004

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Chu, Yi-Chun / Bainbridge, David / Jones, Matt / Witten, Ian H.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1339

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computer science / 3D book visualization / Java and OpenGL / visual metadata

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This is an author’s version of an article published in Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, Tuscon, AZ, USA, June 07 - 11, 2004.

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