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Why Beatrix Potter Would Love a Digital Reader

Posted by timothy on from the bunny-centerfold dept.

destinyland writes "In 1906, children's book author Beatrix Potter tried creating her own new, non-book format for delivering her famous fairy tales. 'Intended for babies and tots, the story was originally published on a strip of paper that was folded into a wallet, closed with a flap, and tied with a ribbon.' This article includes a link to actual images from one of Potter's strange wallet-sized stories — 'The Story of A Fierce, Bad Rabbit' — plus an image showing you exactly what Beatrix Potter thought 'a fierce, bad rabbit' would look like!"

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  1. Uh... by Man+On+Pink+Corner · · Score: 2, Funny

    What're you doing with that carrot, Peter. No, wait, no, seriously, man, ...

  2. Zappa by dn15 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In related news experts say Frank Zappa would have used Linux.

  3. Re:huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, my nephew was a master of the iPhone by about 1.5. What did confuse him though was the screenshot of the iPhone screen in my photo collection. The image just kept zooming in and out as he tried to click the icons.

  4. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    She tried to sue used book stores out of existence and lobbied against public libraries.

  5. Re:huh? by greenguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, I doubt babies would be interested in monochrome rabbits.

    Actually, for their first several months, babies prefer black and white to color. As a proud new papa, I can assure you it's true.

    With that in mind, I thought for a long time that it was dumb that more baby stuff didn't come in black and white, instead of all these pastels. Then I figured out: spit-up washes out of pastels easier than black and white.

    In much the same vein, I strongly suspect spit-up washes out of a pamphlet-book more easily than a digital reader.

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    What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
  6. You think they're allowed to read in hell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If so, she'd probably get nothing but Tom Clancy on her digital reader.

  7. Re:huh? by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's actually a setting on the iPad to increase the power of the Reality Distortion Field (TM). Once it's up high enough you won't even notice the eye strain.

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    "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
  8. Re:What? by jmichaelg · · Score: 2, Funny

    You missed that it was a Timothy post. He tends to fall for PR flak nonsense.