Does Watching A Video Count As Reading If The Video is Embeded In An eBook?

Some discussion that arose in the comments threads of a couple of posts at the end of last week got this blogger thinking about some of the directions in which books are heading in the digital age: eBooks with video embedded, enhanced eBooks, eBooks connected to other media via the Web. It’s an understatement to point out that one of the most exciting things about this moment in terms of technology and information–for the purposes of this blog, eReaders, iPad, eBook-based social networks, iPhone, apps–is that different kinds of information can overlap and be consumed together, placed into context in the same digital work, whether one calls that an eBook, a Vook, an app, a Website, a Wiki, a social network, whatever.