The End of Books

This vision of the book that is never read the same way twice, it’s interactive and closure would be something you as the reader determine.

Possible to have stories that interacted with your choices they probably wouldn’t have the singular endings we are familiar with in our favourite novels.

The book as a technology evolved over thousands of years with certain cultural and intellectual developments. The text just kept saying the same thing no matter how you felt or how many times you opened it.

Hypertext has been with us since 1950s in prototype. A technology still at an icebox stage, aims to be machine made stories where you can decide on characters, plots, narrative progression and conclusion.

The book and interactive narrative can exist together, however some will migrate to this new way of reading stories others will stick to book form.

Definition: The term hypertext describes a tool that lets us use the printed word as the basis for a technology that considerably extends writing’s reach and repertoire mostly by removing text from the single dimension it has on the printed page. Segments of text that may be read or experienced in what may seem like sequential order even when they appear in radically different settings.

I think its genius! How many times have you balled your eyes out over a character suddenly dying in your favourite book, reading it over and over again just hoping he’ll come back or that you could re write and change the story…. Well it could actually happen!
‘’It is not a matter of the river being different each time you cross it so much as it is a matter of your stepping into an entirely different river with each journey you take’’