This article is about a new and special book that has been launched, and which is constantly changing. The book is called A Universe Explodes and its author is Tea Uglow, who wrote it as a book to be changed. The publisher Editons at Play has published 100 books online, which you can read for free. If you want to take part in the project, though, you need to buy it. Then, in order to pass it to a new owner, you'll have to make some changes. You have to add a new word and take out two of them in each page of the book, a total of 21, if not, you won't be able to continue reading the book. This changes are stored online, and everytime a book passes to a new owner's hands, the words are reducted. The idea is that, at the end, there's only one world left in each page.
The author of the article talks about his experience owning this book. He explains that firstly, he started to remove unnecessary adjectives and mistakes, but then he realized that it wasn't really changing a lot, so then he started to leave out main verbs or words that contribuited to the change of the story.
The book's author also explains the idea of the creation of this project and how it started. She says that the relationship between the reader and the book when it is a physical one is different than when it is digital. When it's a physical book it puts up with changes in the pages, the cover, etc. But when it's digital, it doesn't suffer any changes, and that's why Uglow came up with this idea, that makes the digital book put up with changes. The article author says this project won't make the readers feel like if they owned a physical book, but that it will be interesting to see the final results of the different stories.
PERSONAL OPINION:
PERSONAL OPINION:
I really liked the idea of this project, because I think it is a good way to make the readers feel the digital books as their, as Tea Uglow says, but it is also a way of unite people. It becomes a group project in which people of all ages and places and who have no connection bewteen them. In my opinion, it is very beautiful to be able to create something like this, with different people who can contribute different points of view and more projects like this should be done. VOCABULARY:
· hone: perfeccionar
· underpin: donar suport, recolzar
· lop off: tallar, retallar
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