{"id":10900,"date":"2010-02-05T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:50:57","slug":"hello-ipad-goodbye-print-on-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/02\/hello-ipad-goodbye-print-on-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, iPad! Goodbye Print On Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"
Apple’s new iPad will change everything for us gardeners who are missing good gardening books and journals.It\u2019s here, well almost, and I am thrilled. I\u2019ve been waiting for a device that will offer more mobility than a laptop, so that I can read it in bed, and one that had internet access, bright light and fast interface. Zthe new iPad promises this and more.
Imagine what a Kew Magazine will look like, a North American Rock Garden Society Journal, or a Scottish Rock Garden Club interactive magazine will look like.
Many gardening magazine with some botanical interest are already available in a flip-page format, all we needed was a excellent quality larger reading device so that we can carry them anywhere with us, the Apple iPad is just the thing.<\/p>\n
Nothing excited me more this week than Apple’s long awaited anouncement about their new four color, thin, affordable, clear screened, light, amazing iPad. I am already waiting in line, for this is something that I believe in – this one invention will change everything, a tipping point, if you will, on how we consumer information as gardeners. (OK. groan everyone, but just watch).<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong, no one loves books and magazines more than me, and believe me, I’ve resisted every tech trend that has “ruined” my passions – Casettes to CD’s, Ektachrome to digital, and letters on paper, to email. But what this really is about, is simple adjusting, for now, we can have more. More information, more color photos, more video, more mobility. Our beloved garden and plant magazInes ( and plant society journals) are not going away at all, they will become more plentiful, and more available to more people. <\/p>\n
We’ve all survived the whole “We don’t have a digital projector” thing as gardeners, and now, we groan at those who have to set up their glass slides, when we are attending a plant society meeting. We do adopt tech faster than we think, sometimes. Sure, the charm of print on paper will be missed, and maybe, it won’t go away at all, for, just at cooking books, maybe our publishers will focus on high quality plant publication rather than magazine and monographs. Besides, nomenclature and classification changes so fast nowadays, that this might be one way to always stay current. Medical journals and other scientific journals are already published digitally.
Zinio, a quality digital book and Magazine site may be a source for plant society journals in the future, they already offer text books and some plant magazines from around the world.<\/p>\n