The latest AHA blog entry points to being able to read books online in a similar manner to real life - turning pages - but using your computer mouse instead of directly with your fingers. If you follow their link to the British Library, you'll be able to read a very old book as well as Alice in Wonderland.
At the recent Second Life conference, we talked a lot about how our new worlds first recreate the old ones (ie classrooms in Second Life configured like those in Real Life) before inventing new ones. It makes sense - we want to know how to do the same thing better. And, even more importantly, we want to bring others in who may be hesitant to enter new technology venues and recreating the familiar makes them more at ease. Some of the good early academic type webpages recreated the look of notebooks with tabs so that the interface was familiar and easy to use.
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