Comments on: ‘Page-turner’? Or ‘page-tapper’? Just what do you call an e-novel you like? http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/13/page-turner-or-page-tapper-just-what-do-you-call-an-e-novel-you-like/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:19:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/13/page-turner-or-page-tapper-just-what-do-you-call-an-e-novel-you-like/comment-page-1/#comment-1021698 Steve Jordan Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:29:04 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/13/page-turner-or-page-tapper-just-what-do-you-call-an-e-novel-you-like/#comment-1021698 I agree with Bill: "Page-turner" will just become one of those anachronisms that, someday, we'll have trouble remembering where they came from. But... if you're looking for a new phrase that can be applied to the digital world, try Scroller, as in: "It was a real scroller!" I agree with Bill: “Page-turner” will just become one of those anachronisms that, someday, we’ll have trouble remembering where they came from.

But… if you’re looking for a new phrase that can be applied to the digital world, try Scroller, as in: “It was a real scroller!”

]]> By: Bill McHale http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/13/page-turner-or-page-tapper-just-what-do-you-call-an-e-novel-you-like/comment-page-1/#comment-1021175 Bill McHale Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:31:04 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/13/page-turner-or-page-tapper-just-what-do-you-call-an-e-novel-you-like/#comment-1021175 Do we really need to invent another new term? Really, perhaps the fact that the Grammy's still give out a best album award 20 years after albums ceased being the primary means of distributing music should clue us in. Oh right and we still dial the phone even though telephone dials have been replaced by keypads for decades. In both of those cases, the phrase outlived the technology that it was directed to. I think the same can be said of ebooks. They still have pages, and many of us still think of going to the next page as turning the page. Ultimately, we can continue using the phrase "page-turner" with little fear that people will not understand what we mean. -- Bill Do we really need to invent another new term? Really, perhaps the fact that the Grammy’s still give out a best album award 20 years after albums ceased being the primary means of distributing music should clue us in. Oh right and we still dial the phone even though telephone dials have been replaced by keypads for decades. In both of those cases, the phrase outlived the technology that it was directed to. I think the same can be said of ebooks. They still have pages, and many of us still think of going to the next page as turning the page. Ultimately, we can continue using the phrase “page-turner” with little fear that people will not understand what we mean.

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