Obviously, to all who are on the web and engaged in social media, this is a time of much interaction with the stuff we read and the people who produce it. I have been trying to get an old fashioned book published, and while doing so, I became intensely aware of the shortcomings of a book.
The information is all there. However, the printed page and digital text are so flat feeling what with videos streaming on Facebook, while my tables lie rigidly on the page.
This morning while reading a report of the fabled London fire, you may "retrace Samuel Pepys' steps" whilst he runs from the approaching fire. Readers may advance along the map with textual descriptions that pop up from locations complete with images that accompany them.
"The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys#/media/File:Samuel_Pepys.jpg
See the BBC presentation here.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160902-retrace-samuel-pepys-steps-in-the-great-fire-of-london
Samuel Pepys
Map of London, BBC
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