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While neuroscientists and child development specialists have been delving into the psychology of reading e-books and vooks (see The Medium Is The Screen, But The Message is Distraction), a blogger named Danny Bloom has occupied himself with the nomenclature.
Plain old “reading” simply doesn’t seem to cover the various acts necessary to experience a multimedia vook that we have to click, scroll, screen, watch, listen to, and – yes – read. So Bloom, who has been aggregating on his blog a great deal of cogent information and articles about e-books, has proposed the word “Screading”, combining screening and reading.
We buy it completely, and from now on, “Screading” it will be.
Bloom also brought to my attention that “Kindle” is now a verb. It may be a while before “Nook” achieves verb status, however.
RC
While neuroscientists and child development specialists have been delving into the psychology of reading e-books and vooks (see The Medium Is The Screen, But The Message is Distraction), a blogger named Danny Bloom has occupied himself with the nomenclature.
It didn't take long for the editors at UrbanDictionary.com to get wind of your blogpost, Richard, and this is what they are thinking of entering into the books soon, or so I hear. — Danny
Dear Sir
Yr entry is under review by editors.
nooking
To read a book on a sleek, light e-reader device called a Nook and marketed by Barnes & Noble.
"Sorry, I can't talk to you now honey, I'm nooking the new Dan Brown book on my Nook and I just can't put it down!"
submitted by by playingnookie101 on Oct 24, 2009
tags: books, e-readers, e-books, chapters, bookstores, Richard Curtis
There are those who are pro and those wwho are con;
A professor tells me via email: "Sounds a lot like "screed" which has few positive connotations."
But I still like it. Screading, that is. There are always naysayers when a revolution begins. Another email from a top publishing CEO in NYC told me just now: "sounds like this the beginning of a revolution. Richard wrote a very good opening shot!"
– DANNY
Thanks for your definition of nooking!
Editors reviewed your entry and have decided to publish it on urbandictionary.com.
It should appear on this page in the next few days:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nooking
Urban Dictionary
—–
nooking
To read a book on a sleek, light e-reader device called a Nook and marketed by Barnes & Noble.
"Sorry, I can't talk to you now honey, I'm nooking the new Dan Brown book on my Nook and I just can't put it down!"
A Hollywood screenwriter tells me just now: re Richard's blogpost and the idea of screading as a new word for reading on screens
"I like it…I could easily see "screading" catching on. But should we want it to catch on? Well, I guess that's not up to me…"
KS
Why B&N called it the Nook: Maybe because they’re Dr. Seuss fans
By Court Merrigan at Teleread.org
David and others may see some double entendre in Barnes & Noble’s new Nook<, but not me.
Maybe I’m just hopelessly naïve, but not only does the Book Nook in my hometown represent my earliest childhood memory of a bookstore, but I also have a two-year old in my house. So naturally the first thing that came to my mind was Dr. Seuss:
We took a look.
We saw a Nook.
On his head he had a hook.
On his head he had a book …
(I didn’t have to Google that quote, I’ll have you know. No, I have the entirety of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish memorized.)
Think the Marketing folks in at B & N are big Seuss fans?
Richard, your blog post is now all over FACEBOOK, we hundreds of Facebookscenti are screading it. One HuffPo writer told me just now:
"Hi Danny and Richard, ….i'm not sure we ever need to make an extra effort to make up words for things. language takes care of itself, most of the time, and i'm a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist. take email, for instance. we totally smuggled in an old, archaic word and called it "electronic" despite more than a few really important differences, like the fact that the same email can have multiple recipients. later we shortened "electronic" to "e" and grafted the little letter right on the old word. no harm, no foul. we all know what email is. we know what it does well and what it does really poorly. so too with reading. doing it on a screen rather than paper may be a radically different experience, but i'm not sure that calls for an orchestrated campaign to gin up a new label…."
David Says:
A few points:
1. The issue isn’t just how children read but what they read. E-books would allow wider variety of choices matching their needs and interests. Even early on, there might be an argument for customized content in many cases.
2. Even the “how” can vary with E. Some children may respond better to certain color combinations or kinds of type. I myself can read more easily off a good LCD screen than off an E Ink machine with limited contrast.
3. If you go by the work of literacy experts, children would seem to respond better to material watching their needs and interests. We go back to the “what.”
4. As Steve Jordan or someone else pointed out here, reading a work full of of links is different from reading a novel without the Web-style clutter. The Web experience isn’t as “immersive,” to use language from Bill Hill. I myself would be wildly in favor of letting readers turn off links to avoid distractions.
5. Using the “what,” I’ve made a strong case for E, but if the “how” matters so much, then we could still have a TeleRead approach but allow for a brief period in children’s lives when they would be reading off paper.
6. The “what” and “how” aren’t the only variables. How about the issue of how the teacher is training the child to process the material? When distracting links are present, a teacher can encourage children to ignore them, at least initially.
7. An e-book with well planned links just might offer fewer distractions than a paper book with a chaotic layout with plenty of sidebars.
8. I’d remind you that when the Last Book vision is truly realized, then E will have flippable pages and there won’t or at least needn’t be a difference between P and E anyway.
Thanks for caring about these issues, whether or not you agree with me.
David
Matt says:
”Richard and Danny…..Coming up with a new word for what appears to be an exisiting practice will always seem redundant to most people. But at this juncture anything that reminds us that there IS a change going on here, rather than allowing us to forget that our artifacts always have implications on our behviour and our thoughts, should be considered useful. Will we always distinguish between reading and screening? I doubt it. But for now it is the discussion itself that’s crucial.”
Matt says: amended to say;
”Richard and Danny…..Coming up with a new word for what appears to be an exisiting practice will always seem redundant to most people. But at this juncture anything that reminds us that there IS a change going on here, rather than allowing us to forget that our artifacts always have implications on our behviour and our thoughts, should be considered useful. Will we always distinguish between reading and SCREADING? I doubt it. But for now it is the discussion itself that’s crucial.”
Definition: A screed is a length of 2×4 or an aluminum bar that is pulled across wet concrete to smooth it down.
Common Misspellings: scread, screading
In the most basic applications, the 2×4 is set on edge and pulled backward (toward you) in order to generally smooth down the lumpy concrete. It helps to have two workers, one on each side. Aluminum screeds are often used, as they provide a straighter edge.
For more professional screeding, a motorized screed may be used that has a long handle to eliminate laborious bending and tugging.
Screeding is not the final finish. For that, you need a bull float.
Common Misspellings: scread, screading
Examples: Jim used the screed, pulling it backward across the lumpy concrete, to provide a smooth finish before using the bull float.
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2009/10/are-you-screading.html
first ever photo of a SCREADING sign at national chiayi university in Taiwan, of all places….