But, he added, “Locationality, that’s not our challenge. Any large urban area is a series of districts. We’re creating a district that works with those other districts.”. The locationality and subjective positions of women faculty of color. According to Christine Stanley, 'there is very little empirical research on the teaching experi-ences of faculty of color in predominantly white colleges and universities. Most salient themes identified. Relate to student attitudes and behaviors.

Reflecting on reading has been marvelous. I have been reading Grafton and Williams,Christianity and the Transformation of the Book in Kindle format on my iPod touch. Here are some of my reflections regarding this reading experience.

Hyperlinked Endnotes

Having endnotes linked in kindle format is very useful and navigation between citation and note is quite easy. I loathe endnotes in traditional print books. Locating a note in an appendix, separated from its context interrupts my reading experience to such a degree that I only consult an endnote if absolutely necessary. With hyperlinked notes in a kindle text, i can easily move from text to note and back, so the notes feel far more integrated into the body of the text. For me, this is a much rounder reading experience and has helped me reimagine the role of endnotes in a book.

‘Page’ Turning

Fixed pages don’t really exist in Kindle format as a unit of text. Do to the flexibility in reader technology with which one can read kindle books, this makes sense. It is the reader application that determines how much text is displayed to the person reading at any one given time. Things like screen size, screen orientation and font size dynamically shape how much text is on a ‘page’ in a kindle book. For reference purposes, Kindle does have enumerated fixed location points in a text, but the page is no longer a fundamental organizational unit of a book. One of the fundamental technological (and cognitive, I would argue) shifts that came with the rise of the codex book form was this very pagination idea, so this is no small shift.

Though pages no longer provide a fixed unit of text in kindle books, most reader technology still has the reader turning pages. So, we still have a codex feel, but the book is not really a codex. Perhaps the kindle reading experience is a hybrid roll/codex technology, with the text produced as a roll (continuous text), but performed as a codex (page turning, non-linear access, etc.).

Due to the small screen on my iPod touch, I turn ‘pages’ frequently. On one hand, this page turning involves my body more in the reading experience, which keeps my attention focused better than the longer cycle of page turing in a typical print book. On the other hand, these frequent page turns can impede my ability to trace the logic of a long section. I also find it harder to skim with such high frequency page turns. I wonder how this kind of reading performance, stringing together a large number of small textual units, impacts how my brain processes the text. Could this contribute to a greater atomization of the text?

No Art?

Perhaps the largest limitation I have found in the kindle book technology so far is the omission of art. Now, this may only be true in the book I am reading, but it seems problematic and unnecessary to refer readers to the print version of the book to see the images accompanying the text. Art shapes the way we read; it is not just decoration! A painting and its caption at the beginning of a section will inevitably impact how a reader approaches that portion of the text. With the growing ease of digital image capture, compression and delivery, I hope that kindle books and any rights management laws will seriously consider allowing inclusion of images within the text of ebook formats. Perhaps links to the images with easy navigation back to the originating context (much like the endnotes) would be sufficient.

Overall, I am thrilled with my kindle reading experience. Anyone else have any thoughts about the possibilities and/or limitations of these reading technologies?

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