Why Should E-Books Have To Be Like Books? Why Not Like, Say, Trading Cards?

Reading an e-book “still feels like, well, reading a book: tabbing through pages, digesting information linearly.” But the tech company Semi-Linear’s new Citia iPad app “reinvents long-form non-fiction for the tablet, turning books into something that resembles less a sequence of chapters and more a digital spread of sharable, customizable, collectible cards.”