This wonderful short reminded me so much of a great animation I saw earlier this year... (Shouldn't have been surprised to find out it's the same team) http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA
Book loving genius... and the Rodrigo y Gabriela track rocks too.

Not just a fancy proof of concept video - but the actual thing (nearly) ::
"Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper."

Little Printer: http://www.vimeo.com/32796535

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Sweet!
Pretty bizarre to hear The Pixies in a Microsoft Ad though... I mean, these are the people that gave us Songsmith

Two interesting ideas in new sites about reading:
smalldemons.com takes books, and everything in the books and repackages the details, the data(!), the characters, the locations, the activity so that they get mashed up with reality and with each other. A storyverse. A whole world of interlinking narrative!
http://www.smalldemons.com/

and findings.com is a really smart way of sharing copy that simply doesn't fit into 140 characters. You know, like a paragraph... Maybe even 140 words that tell you enough to know that you really want to read something. It's a nice idea and I hope it catches the imagination. As always will probably depend on how easy it becomes to integrate into readers. Extension? App?

 

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