guardian reporting:
Robin Sloan, author of Fish, the acclaimed iPhone essay featured here a few months ago, used the term "flip-flop"
to define an increasingly common process by which a work of art moves
between different formats, and specifically between the physical and the
digital. As an example, he gave the digitisation of a marble statue by a
museum, its storage and restoration, and its physical recreation by a
3D printer – a process not too far off in many of the world's major
institutions. The flip-flop also comes in very handy when we're trying
to take advantage of the different functions of print and digital,
reading and writing.
The Evernote Smart Notebook
from Moleskine allows fans of the classic notebooks to save copies of
the pages to Evernote's online suite of organisation tools. A special
page design helps a smartphone camera capture sketches and handwritten
notes as if they were digital documents. Brightly coloured bookmark
stickers which turn into tags online can be added to pages, syncing the
digital and physical versions.
It's also becoming easier to print
the best of the web in order to digest it away from the computer or
phone. Many of these tools are built upon existing digital collation
services such as Instapaper and Readability,
which allow you to save and read online articles when disconnected from
the web. But these queues of reading, just like unread books on the
bedside table, can stack up quickly.
...And a new service, Blackstrap, promises to produce beautifully laid-out books from your Instapaper stack....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/06/reading-flip-flops-digital-physical
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