- It focuses on the aspects of
a country you normally find pushed to a few back pages of the conventional
travel guides – literature, art and history
- It includes blogsites – 16 of
them – with the hyperlinks and some excerpts
- It gives a lot of hyperlinks to material about
Romanian society and culture – for example 20 travelogues from the last couple of
decades (that’s one a year); to lists of several hundred novels; to sites
which will give data and examples of a couple of hundred Romanian painters;
and to several photographic sites
The "Blue Guides" and Pallas Guides do offer cultural
feasts - but don’t have the hyperlinks..
A year or so ago I picked up in one of the second-hand bookshops in
Bucharest some volumes of a 1960s "Collection Literaire" - French schoolbook texts by Lagarde and Michard. They cover most cultural forms and include
excerpts and photos. Quite exquisite....but is there a modern equivalent?
They used to be called Reference books. But in even their traditional (ie non web-based) form they were generally available only in the local language ie not for foreigners - or at least only for that minority of visitors who spoke the language fairly fluently.......
And what does one call this new format – with its “embedded hyperlinks”?
“EBook with embedded links” is a bit of a mouthful! Also sounds a bit warlike!
My first idea was “smart” book - but that seems to be a technical device like a tablet….
“EBook with embedded links” is a bit of a mouthful! Also sounds a bit warlike!
My first idea was “smart” book - but that seems to be a technical device like a tablet….
and
this EC initiative doesn’t actually tell me very much.
I
blogged a few months back about “slow books” – perhaps I should patent a
product called “slow, smart books”????
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