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Backgammon e-books

Posted By: 6stones
Date: Tuesday, 22 March 2011, at 12:44 p.m.

In Response To: New backgammon book (Mislav Radica)

(Sorry, I have not read the book.)

I just would like to use this opportunity to get the word out that there is at least one person in the whole wide world who would prefer reading/buying backgammon material as e-books.

The new e-publishing industry obviously opens new vistas for many branches, but to name a few advantages of emerging technologies for backgammon publishing:

In an e-book application on backgammon an option for

* different levels/layers of presenting the information, hence catering to the needs of different readerships - there could be embedded material for the more experienced, say math stuff/numerical data which might be forbidding for a beginner

* hyperlinks within the book and to web-resources (eg. 'touch/click here to see similar positions')

* displaying the moves in alternative notations according to the reader's preferences

* displaying the images of example positions in the board and checker directions/colours according to the reader's preferences

* using more colour images (which in the traditional print version might be too costly, and with adverse effects on the retail price)

* interactive touch screen enables new ways of testing via a quiz how well one has absorbed what one has read, statistics for displaying the error tendencies ('you shoud brush up on cube actions' etc.)

* showing more variants of example positions (embedded)

* showing rollout results of example positions according to the reader's preferences

* attaching position IDs for copy/paste (similarly with the rollout results, they can be embedded in the layout so that they don't cause visual distraction)

* incorporating folders/databases of example/quiz positions/games in a generic format,eg. as .mat-files, to be opened in a bot of one's choosing

* video lectures/audio commentary when annotating a match, etc.

Feel free to add possible features not mentioned in the above list.

(On the other hand, I acknowledge that the traditional print version has some advantages too.)

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