Article by Virginia Hefferman (1/14/2011)
This is short one paged article was about a new piece of visual media that combines the options of reading and viewing. People buy how-to books all the time and often without much result. Vook is a new app on the iPad or iPhone that combines reading text and watch/listening to video to further instruct you on how-to projects as well as regular reading.
Hefferman does a good quick over view of how the Vook works and the future of the app. She does perhaps a bit of a half hearted attempt to truly explain the app and it's full breadth of uses, but none the less imparted a bit of information.
Sometimes reading can truly just be about learning about something new. In a day and age where "something new" is a daily occurrence, and quiet honestly is usually about something dreadful, it's a nice change for what I'm learning about to just be about something that integrates two medias together. Reading, like mentioned in the article, is usually a mind work out, but I enjoy the idea that I could maybe take the strain off if I were to try and learn to cook a specific dish or maybe do yoga.
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