Vidding: A History by Francesca Coppa
University of Michigan Press, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10069132
read online, download in epub or PDF
This free book deploys multimedia in its analysis of transformative vidding with both words and pictures: the open-access server hosts 137 fanvids.
( Book blurb )
Thanks to cathexys for the announcement.
Given my earlier link to the Open Library’s announcement they were lifting limits on how many people can borrow from their extensive scanned book collection "for the duration", I was surprised and enlightened to read about opposition from authors.
( 500 words of links & summaries )
ETA 31 Mar 2020
Ah! I found meaningful discussion and links about this on Metafilter:
https://www.metafilter.com/186248/The-Internet-Archives-National-Emergency-Library
Two informative Twitter threads for those who dare to enter the doomscroll
This is a specific test case being put to the public in order to challenge the doctrine of first sale as applied to ebooks, and it's in direct response to the exorbitant prices and significant restrictions publishers place on libraries.
thread start https://mobile.twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1244257620548038656?s=20
From AlexandraErin
...okay, and I'm getting that a lot of people don't like the idea of copyrights period. Information Wants To Be Free and all that. But your revolution needs an order of operations. If you kill the copyright first, while we're all still toiling under capitalism, you hurt workers.
Thread start https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1244309400690491393?s=20
When I began computing, everything was dark mode: green pixels on a gray-green screen. ( (just like this one, resting on two mighty 158k floppy disk drives on an Apple IIe) )
I was thrilled when the Mac showed up with black on white! So much easier on the eyes! I was mystified and repelled when Adobe products began showing a dark UI. Now it’s the hot new thing--the next version of iOS will offer it.
I learned a lot from TidBITS’s deep dive into why dark mode isn’t actually that much easier on the eyes.
https://tidbits.com/2019/05/31/the-dark-side-of-dark-mode/
The full article discusses the science of visual perception, and acknowledges its conclusions are relevant to typical eyesight. Some people’s vision requirements are different, and I’m very glad that modern computer systems let us change displays to optimize for what we can see.
Last week when I was kvelling about my new glasses, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
killing_rose explained how rose-colored glasses minimized migraine
( My Apple devices let me create helpful tints with software )
ETA Feb 2021:
wild_irises mentioned this book as a relevant to my interests.
Operators and Things—Barbara O’Brien( 4 of 5 )
I didn't find this answer on a quick search of Mobilereads.com forum, so I thought I'd share. I read on my iPad in the Kobo app. I buy my ebooks from Kobo because they have a deal with the American Booksellers Association; when I buy a book there Room of One's Own gets a 15% cut. ( why & how step by step )
branchandroot![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}