![]() Maybe the review looking dated would be a good thing because it may clue you in that the book itself is dated? It could become an important tool in the future.ĭiane: Count me in as another blogger who spends way too much time looking for just the right image. I think teen books get dated really quickly, too- not so much the fantasy and historical fictions, but books that I couldn’t keep on the shelf three years ago are now sitting there gathering dust. If a book has good reviews whether it has pictures or not then it’s likely to stick around for a while and get good word of mouth. Honestly, I’m not looking at reviews of books five, ten years down the line to see if I want to buy it for my collection or not. I really think that using visual aids in a review adds to the process of creation as much as it does in a blog- and aren’t some of these online reviews blogs anyway?īecky hit on a key point during our discussion- it may date us later to use gifs and memes, but it makes things accessible and relevant NOW. The latter came easily, but the pictures did not and I ended up spending a lot more time on Pinterest than I had intended (isn’t that always the way?). I was working on my personal blog last month and my husband commented that it was taking me a while… the thing that was taking time was finding the right pictures to go along with my words. What do you think of using GIFs and other images in book reviews?Ĭarla: Usually I’m okay with images being used- unless I’m on my phone and they won’t load and then I get aggravated! But I’ve spent just as much time looking for the right image as I have the right words, and I think that in certain instances, like blogs and Goodreads, and other places where people can post reviews online, an image is perfectly acceptable. Maybe I’m old-school that way! I see GIFs used to great comedic effect in a “picture is worth a thousand words” kind of way (the Capt. In her Salon article, Miller writes, “Perhaps, though, what’s unsettling about even the most inventive use of GIFs and images is the way they evoke emotion and subjectivity rather than ideas and analysis.” One might argue that emotion and subjectivity have always been a part of reader response, and that words traditionally limit such responses.īecky: I was drawn to the topic because I find visual culture very interesting, and have definitely noticed the use of GIFs on Goodreads especially, but would never expect that kind of review to become the way books are reviewed. The whole concept intrigues me!ĭiane: Agreed! Images are so effective at capturing attention, and technology has made them increasingly available. ![]() I know as librarians and educators we all love the written word, but there’s something about Jean-Luc Picard with his head in his hands that says to me, “This is an epic fail†better than actually saying “This is an epic fail.”It isn’t always flippant- sometimes it can be a very sweet or poignant image that says more than words can. Hub bloggers Carla Land, Becky O’Neil, and I share our reactions to the brave and sometimes brutal new world of customer book reviews.Ĭarla: What drew me to this topic was that I think, as a blogger, that it takes a certain creative element to be able to combine words and pictures together to convey an idea. Although both web sites have reviewer guidelines, amateur book reviewers have a considerable amount of freedom to express their opinions to an international audience. If you need to zoom the whole GIF, not just one frame, then please use our Zoom a GIF tool.Last November, published an article by Laura Miller entitled GIFs, memes and liveblogs the controversial new language of book reviewing. Miller explores the customer review phenomena as it applies to books on and. Along with this option, there's also a "Sharp Zoom" setting, which allows you to sharpen or smoothen the pixels of the frozen frame. It's useful if a GIF is very small and you need to see more details in it, or if a GIF is too big, you can make the frame smaller. To accommodate this use, we also added a "Viewer Zoom" option that lets you change the size of frozen GIF frames. Another popular use case of freezing a frame is creating a thumbnail of a GIF animation. By selecting the "View a Live GIF Backwards" mode, the frames will be reversed. Sometimes, it's useful to view GIF frames in the reverse order. ![]() If the GIF is already slow, then you can make it go a little bit faster. With this program, you can make an animated GIF go slower and specify which frame to view in more detail and it will be frozen and displayed in the output frame area. You often need to view individual frames of a GIF but as GIFs usually play at a very fast speed, it's hard to see each frame in detail. This is a browser-based GIF animation viewer.
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