Three Parts Dead Unboxing
I’ve received the first copy of Three Parts Dead from Tor! In honor of Apple’s product launch today, and the new Kindles Amazon debuted on Monday, I decided to try my hand at the tantalizing genre of “unboxing.”
Warning: Awesome Images Ahoy!
This package arrived at my office. Mysterious, no?
Then, when I tear open the envelope, I find, in full heartstopping glory:
Behold!
There’s the flat-out amazing Chris McGrath cover art, with Tara staring indomitable at a no-doubt intimidated onlooker. These pictures don’t capture the beautiful, velvety matte of the cover, or the solid heft of book-in-hand, or the smell of ink and paper.
Moving pieces! All the pages are connected by means of a smooth hinge or “binding”, that distributes the weight of the ‘book’ differently in the hand as the reader progresses–this advanced haptic feedback technology gives the reader an instant intuitive knowledge of how far she’s come, and how far she has yet to go.
Look at that resolution! There’s no way for my camera to capture it: the pixels could not be distinguished at any distance. My eyes lost focus before the letters did. The black / white contrast Tor’s achieved here stands out. This product really has to be seen to be believed.
Each page exists as a separate entity–many pages can be manipulated and viewed at once! Not only that: the page-turn is apparently as responsive as physically possible, with a delay on the order of 10-44 s.
And the key turns, the engine starts, and the reading begins.
I’m so excited right now. Tor has done a wonderful job putting this book together. Three Parts Dead looks great, and I can’t wait for more people to share this experience with me.
