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Title

A jump to the left (and then a step to the right): reading practices within academic ebooks

Author(s)

McKay, Dana

Abstract

Considerable attention has been paid to how readers find, triage, navigate and read periodical material such as journal articles. Until recently however, applying these questions to books has been impractical or impossible. This paper reports an exploratory log analysis of ebook usage in an academic library. This study investigates raw usage, document triage practices, and in-book navigation.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Library

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research

Source

Proceedings of 'Design, culture and interaction', the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (OZCHI 2011), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 28 November-02 December 2011, pp. 202-210

Publication year

2011

FOR Code(s)

0806 Information Systems;  1203 Design Practice and Management

Keyword(s)

Books;  Document triage;  Ebooks;  HCI;  Human-computer interaction;  In-document navigation;  Information behaviour;  Information interfaces;  Information presentation;  Information use;  Reading

Publisher

ACM

ISBN

9781450310901, 1450310907

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2071536.2071569

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of OZCHI (2011), http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2071536.2071569

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