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The ebook of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Speckled Band is now available with sound effects. Photograph: Alamy
The ebook of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Speckled Band is now available with sound effects. Photograph: Alamy

How are your reading habits changing?

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Enhanced ebooks offer screams, thunderstorms and crunching gravel sound effects. Tell us if books are turning a page for you

Last Friday saw the release of the UK's first so-called "enhanced ebook", an edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with sound effects, including screams and thunderstorms, that play as the reader begins a relevant passage. A critically acclaimed multimedia app of TS Eliot's The Waste Land has already been published by Faber & Faber.

Have your reading habits already changed because of ebooks, audiobooks or other technologies? And how do imagine your bookshelves looking 10 years from now? Will curling up in a comfy chair with a bound book remain the definitive way to engross yourself in prose?

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