An electronic book company is to add background sounds and music to the works of Shake-speare Charlotte Bronte, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William in hopes that young readers.
In one example, a description of the rain lashing against the window in a Sherlock Holmes story will be "enhanced" with matching sounds.
The Book Track versions are available to users iPad, will follow with other Tablet PC versions.
The concept is already in the U.S., where the classics come with additional sound effects.
For example, readers hear the porcelain cups sounding in Mr. Darcy garden, as they read Pride and Prejudice.
A story of Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie will be published later this year with a specially-crafted score.
Rushdie's story in the South will be released with a soundtrack by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
The Power Of Six by Pittacus Lore, a novel for young adults, is one of the first to be tested with a soundtrack that builds up in the air, in line with the action.
It was dubbed by the music track book created in any novel. It is funded by Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal.
It works by timing the speed of each reader and software that measures the "Turning" a page and the music sounds or moves accordingly.
Mr. Thiel said. "It's always exciting to witness the creation of a new form of media, the technology promises to the reader in a way, seem intuitively is to tie in hindsight."
However, they have been with dismay of traditionalists, the technology takes the pleasure of the imagination inspired by a story to tell welcomed.
They also raise the prospect of having to ask for an avid reader, reject her book.
David Nicholls, whose bestseller One Day was recently turned into a film starring Anne Hathaway, said: "This sounds like the opposite to be read from it would be a distraction.."
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