Eventual successive owners of the volume are
supposed to report to BookCrossing (by e-mail) about the
book's and their whereabouts, thereby generating moving plots
and mapping the territory of literacy and bibliomania. This
innocuous model subversively undermines the concept - legal
and moral - of ownership. It also expropriates the book from
the realm of passive, inert objects and transforms it into a
catalyst of human interactions across time and space. In other
words, it returns the book to its origins: a time capsule, a
time machine and the embodiment of a historical narrative.
E-books, hitherto, have largely been nothing but an ephemeral
rendition of their print predecessors. But e-books are another
medium altogether. They can and will provide a different
reading experience. Consider "hyperlinks within the e-book
and without it - to web content, reference works, etc.,
embedded instant shopping and ordering links, divergent, user-
interactive, decision driven plotlines, interaction with other
e-books (using Bluetooth or another wireless standard),
collaborative authoring, gaming and community activities,
automatically or periodically updated content, ,multimedia
capabilities, database, Favourites and History Maintenance
(records of reading habits, shopping habits, interaction with
other readers, plot related decisions and much more),
automatic and embedded audio conversion and translation
capabilities, full wireless piconetworking and
scatternetworking capabilities and more".
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