{"id":154,"date":"2010-08-29T22:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T22:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2010-08-29T22:41:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T22:41:36","slug":"recent-eread-the-art-of-innovation-ideo-palm-and-project-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/recent-eread-the-art-of-innovation-ideo-palm-and-project-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent eRead: The Art of Innovation, IDEO, Palm and Project 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s taken me a while to get through the book The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm, by Tom Kelley<\/a>, but not because it’s a hard book to read, no it was because it was an eBook!<\/p>\n

Well more to the point a Kindle eBook, being read on an iPod Touch. I found it really handy to purchase and download the book, and while obviously the reading format was optimised for the smaller screen I found it hard to figure out where exactly I was in the book. I mean it takes me a while to get into a book, but once I hit half way, I rip through the second half, but this just wasn’t the case with the eBook. The eBook gave me no sense of where I was in the book.<\/p>\n

Also I found the iPod Touch to be a distraction, in that I read email, twitter, news feeds and surf the web on the device, and with the eBook I found myself reading less of the book and drifting off to do those other things. It makes me think that a dedicated eReader really might be a better option, but one without the email, twitter, news feeds and web surfing capabilities. Oh but whispersync was great, although I hate the idea of “the system” knowing exactly how, were and when I’m reading a book! <\/p>\n

Anyway to the book itself.<\/p>\n

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