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HCI design principles for ereaders

Jen Pearson Orcid Logo, George Buchanan, Harold Thimbleby

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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/1871854.1871860

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As interactive digital documents are becoming more and more commonplace, we find ourselves searching for new ways to make good use of them. The fast delivery and large storage capacity that digital devices offer, make reading from bulky physical books seem obsolete, even nonsensical. EReaders, the l...

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