Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Two Five Three

When I first looked at 253, I was completely and utterly confused. But as I read the description of the book on Amazon, it started to make much more sense. The use of multimedia in this book online is quite phenomenal. The way that you can use the links to see the way the passengers are related is interesting and can lead you to the end of the book and to passenger 253 without reading the book in its entirety and learning about every passenger. If you were reading the paper book, you would never be able to link these passengers the way it is done online. You would have to keep flipping back and forth once you read about something that sounds familiar. You could reach the end by cheating and skipping to it, but you would miss the connections of the passengers that is found by using the links online. This is an interesting way to tell a story and one that I particularly enjoy, even though it was confusing at first.

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