If proof were needed that eBooks are worthy of mainstream attention at last, Alice for iPad by the charmingly named Atomic Antelope delivers in spades.
Watching their demo video [YouTube] instills in me the same sense of wonder I experienced upon playing with my first pop-up book as a child, minus the guilty feeling that anything this fun surely doesn’t count as proper reading, and devoid of the horrible notion that all the bits are about to fall off.
I once wrote that I’d only adopt electronic books wholeheartedly when they read like paper, smelt like paper, and cut my fingers like paper. Looks like it’s only a matter of time.
