'Biblioteca de livros digitais': the privileged space of a transliterate experience for children reading online

Abstract

When you digitalize a different version, or even when you create a book digitally, that implies choices of format, codification and standards which are going to definitely change our experience as readers. Whilst analyzing the Portuguese project 'Biblioteca de Livros Digitais'[2], I question how the use of new technologies has been translating aesthetic innovations into the every day most sensitive reading experience. I believe that important questions about reading comprehension on the digital realm need to be addressed if we want to effectively understand online reading today. In this paper, I will closely examine the skills and abilities needed to interact with e-books on BLD while exploring the answers to these three questions: Is the reading process different on BLD? If so, what new processes are used beyond those needed to comprehend conventional print? And if we are talking about another type of reading, what implications do these differences have for today's literacies? To explore the changing nature of reading, I draw upon the unifying concept of transliteracy created by Sue Thomas and the Production and Research in Transliteracy group (PART)[8]