Why Beatrix Potter Would Love a Digital Reader (wordpress.com) 98
destinyland writes "In 1906, children's book author Beatrix Potter tried creating her own new, non-book format for delivering her famous fairy tales. 'Intended for babies and tots, the story was originally published on a strip of paper that was folded into a wallet, closed with a flap, and tied with a ribbon.' While today there's hundreds of children's picture books, it's fun to look back over a century to actual images from one of Potter's original strange wallet-sized stories — 'The Story of A Fierce, Bad Rabbit' — plus an image showing you exactly what Beatrix Potter thought 'a fierce, bad rabbit' would look like!"
Uh... (Score:3, Funny)
What're you doing with that carrot [wordpress.com], Peter. No, wait, no, seriously, man, ...
Zappa (Score:5, Funny)
In related news experts say Frank Zappa would have used Linux.
Re:huh? (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, my nephew was a master of the iPhone by about 1.5. What did confuse him though was the screenshot of the iPhone screen in my photo collection. The image just kept zooming in and out as he tried to click the icons.
Re:What? (Score:1, Funny)
She tried to sue used book stores out of existence and lobbied against public libraries.
Re:huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Also, I doubt babies would be interested in monochrome rabbits.
Actually, for their first several months, babies prefer black and white to color. As a proud new papa, I can assure you it's true.
With that in mind, I thought for a long time that it was dumb that more baby stuff didn't come in black and white, instead of all these pastels. Then I figured out: spit-up washes out of pastels easier than black and white.
In much the same vein, I strongly suspect spit-up washes out of a pamphlet-book more easily than a digital reader.
You think they're allowed to read in hell? (Score:1, Funny)
If so, she'd probably get nothing but Tom Clancy on her digital reader.
Re:huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
You missed that it was a Timothy post. He tends to fall for PR flak nonsense.