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You mentioned some study on the long-term effects of lcd . It's sounds very intriguing. Can you recommend any links to research on neural/ psychotropic effect of the oscillations of the lcd screen? I remember reading something about their negative effect on memory... Sent by Maxis from my BlackBerry® smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Robert Parsons <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 08:35:57 To: <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Academic ebooks I really think clay tablets or the wax tryptych was really the best thing going. lol Btw, with the amount of time I have to spend at a pc all day no-one will ever talk me into purchasing a kindle or reading books on-line other than a few pages. Oh, and that also brings to mind, I'm not sure but some may need to consider the neural / psychotropic effect of the oscillations of the lcd screen, etc.. Other than citing a full-blown study on the topic I would just add that the long-term effects are not totally positive. Sitting down the the medium of the book is a far more relaxing and subsequently conducive to long-term study as far as I am concerned and as many researchers have come to realize. ________________________________ From: David Mattichak <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Fri, November 4, 2011 6:29:25 AM Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Academic ebooks Very amusing Cody! Extolling the virtues of bound books over rolled up parchments. ________________________________ Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:38:59 +0800 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Academic ebooks To: [log in to unmask] I wonder if the same sort of discussions were happening when the book started to surpass the scroll... Best, Cody On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:12 PM, David Mattichak <[log in to unmask]> wrote: MargaretFor a look at professional POD forums at Linkedin (where most publishing industry people do their networking) check out: >http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1782083&trk=hb_side_g >I am a big fan of POD publishing and now it is approaching other book printing >methods for quality with lots of printers offering hard covers and premium >quality paper stocks. It is definitely an area of interest for anyone that is >publishing academically simply because of its cost effectiveness. >I hope that this is useful or interesting for you >Ciao >DGM > > > ________________________________ Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:13:15 +0100 > >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Academic ebooks >To: [log in to unmask] > > >On 4 November 2011 09:02, David Mattichak <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > ...I posted the article simply because the e-book offers so many new >opportunities for anyone that publishes books or articles and I thought that >this group might be useful or interesting to the scholars on this site as it >often discusses new technologies and services. >>I love real hardcopy books too Margaret and I don't think that they are going >>away, but not everything merits an expensive print run. >>DGM >> David, I'm in complete agreement with you about expensive print runs. I tried several years ago to convince the organisers of a large conference, where publishing every paper presented is part of the deal, that putting the papers on CD would be much better, and easier, than trying to arrange publication of a series of 12-15 volumes every four years. (They didn't agree; their publishing programme is now about 10 years in arrears.) The huge advantage of electronic publishing is print-on-demand for those who want physical books, and I think this should be the route for libraries and for conferences where the whole argument for publishing books appears to be that some of the presenters like to be able to show off a hard copy when they get back to their home institutions. My point, and I'm sorry that I didn't make it clear, was only to mention that purely electronic archiving (not publishing) is very difficult. Thank you for posting the article. The issue needs to be continually debated. Sincerely, Margaret >-- >Margaret Gouin >http://independent.academia.edu/ad3b >Author, Tibetan Rituals of Death : Buddhist funerary practices > -- Cody Bahir M.A.J.S.