iPhone App ‘Scarab’ Reinvents the Literary Journal

September 29th, 2009 admin
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Tech-savvy English scholars and poetry lovers: We know you’re out there. (Heck, I majored in English and I work here.) There’s an iPhone app we think you’d love. It’s called Scarab, and its goal is to reinvent the literary journal. Scarab is a literary magazine reader that does more than load works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction on your iPhone screen. Each literary piece is accompanied with an audio reading, dictated sometimes …


Originally posted on Wired

 
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