I know
multimedia is coming to books. I’ve heard tell of augmented ebooks with videos
and sound clips added to them. These are especially useful to textbooks, but
not novels. Maps and diagrams would be useful, especially in a convenient
pop-up so readers don’t have to flip back to the beginning of the book, but I
think there can be one better.
Books with
soundtracks. I recently went on a binge of Cowboy
Bebop again, and I was struck by how instrumental (pun intended) the music
was to the emotions of the story. How cool would it be if every book came with
a recommended soundtrack for the book? With a little extra coding, soundtracks
could be triggered to change automatically with specific chapters, or even
specific page numbers.
Seriously,
someone needs to get on this.