{"id":1480,"date":"2012-09-28T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2012-09-28T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:56:06","slug":"the-odyssey-and-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-odyssey-and-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey and eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0763647918\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0763647918&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=litquotes-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1483\" title=\"Odyssey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Odyssey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Odyssey.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Odyssey-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Odyssey-86x100.jpg 86w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning NPR had an interesting story, <a title=\"NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/09\/28\/161923952\/put-down-your-e-reader-this-books-better-in-print\" target=\"_blank\">Put Down Your E-Reader: This Book Is Better in Print<\/a>.\u00a0 Click on the link to read or listen to the whole story.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gillian Cross&#8217; new retelling of Homer&#8217;s The Odyssey is aimed at kids 8 and up, and like many children&#8217;s books, it&#8217;s brightly colored and beautifully illustrated. But the artwork in this book \u2014 illustrated by Neil Packer \u2014 seems sophisticated for a kids&#8217; book. These are not your standard depictions of gods and goddesses with chiseled features in flowing gowns. The images are stylized, multi-layered, richly colored and a little edgy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to question if such a book would ever make a good eBook.\u00a0 Are some books destined for print?  What makes a book a good fit for an E-Reader?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also want to be sure to check out the book in question.  The illustrations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0763647918\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0763647918&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=litquotes-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a> are truly beautiful.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning NPR had an interesting story, Put Down Your E-Reader: This Book Is Better in Print.\u00a0 Click on the link to read or listen to the whole story.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an excerpt: Gillian Cross&#8217; new retelling of Homer&#8217;s The Odyssey <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[320,319],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litnews","tag-homer","tag-the-odyssey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}