Digital Reading Room: Past, present, and future
[As tablets get more powerful, with more memory and sharper-looking screens, their apps are getting a makeover. Increasingly, mobile apps employ multimedia—combining words, pictures, audio, and video—in new and interesting ways. In our Digital Reading Room series, we’ll look at some eye-catching multimedia apps and tell you which ones deserve a place on your mobile device.]
Our latest look at new content-rich apps starts off in the past before taking a look at some mobile offerings that point to a bright future for how we tell stories.
Pyramids 3D
An ingenious feature of Pyramids 3D is the inclusion of renderings of how pyramids and tombs probably looked when they were new, contrasted in these side-by-side screenshots with how they look now. It’s startling, almost like time travel.
It’s tempting to devote two or three entire Digital Reading Room columns solely to the apps coming out of Touch Press. I’ve already reviewed their superb Barefoot World Atlas and am tempted to also download The Sonnets by William Shakespeare, The Waste Land, and March of the Dinosaurs.
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