Awesome news everyone! For those of you who struggle to keep track of characters as you are plowing your way through A Song of Ice and Fire, technology has finally decided to help. Random House and iBooks are teaming up to release an enhanced edition of the first book, A Game of Thrones, for iPhones, iPads and Macs. But this is no ordinary edition. Each chapter has been digitally enhanced with maps of where the character in question is in Westeros, footnotes (because everyone loves reading footnotes!) and even an extremely helpful little set of reminders of where the character was and what they did the last time you saw them. Think of them as each chapter’s personalized helpful “Last Time on Game of Thrones…”
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Some other enhancements: as you can see from the promotional image provided above, each chapter comes with a larger fancy heading so you know exactly whose POV you’re entering. Said names are also “clickable” and take one to a short bio, if they need to be reminded exactly who this character is. This may not seem so helpful in the earlier books, where all the POV characters are Starks, Snows and Tyrions, but as the books progress, and they do this for, say A Feast For Crows it will be very helpful to be reminded who these new narrators are and why they a purported to matter. Those “Last Time In Jon Snow” will also be very helpful when moving to the next book in the series, or if one has to take several weeks long breaks in the middle of reading because life got in the way.
According to Time magazine:
In addition to illustrations throughout the text, the appendix includes 92 illustrated house sigils, nine house lineages, a detailed map of “The Known World” and marked trails of several main characters’ journeys throughout the first novel.
This first “digitally enhanced” installment is available for download as of this morning. No word on when they will release A Clash of Kings or the other novels with the same helpful annotations as of yet, but if this does well, it’s practically assured they will be on the docket in the near future.
And of course, as always, no we have no word on when The Winds of Winter will arrive.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/09/29/random-house-ibooks-releasing-new-digitally-enhanced-song-ice-fire/
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