This morning I started skimming through a bit of The Shifted Librarian, where a post from 8/24/07 brought into focus the strange jostling of technologies and expectations we're experiencing today. Apparently one of the e-book content providers, CafeScribe, is trying to combine the experience of reading a bound book with the ease of viewing the same text on line, using the fairly old technology of shipping scratch-and-sniff stickers with an "old book" smell when filling orders. It makes you wonder how much we humans have changed in our desire for tactile sensations. Many children certainly start to appreciate reading through the experience of nestling in a parent's lap, exploring the feel and smell--and taste!--of paper pages. At what age do we stop needing those comforting details and find everything we need in the text itself? Do we ever stop?
Will the next generation want those same stimuli, or will those readers become more visually oriented at an earlier age?
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