When discussing the digital transformation that the literary world is going through you’ll often hear detractors lamenting the loss of the ‘texture’ of a worn-out paperback that your Kindle  can never recreate, or the mustiness of a first edition that can’t be found anywhere on the App store. With that in mind, it’s refreshing when the digital format is able to effectively add something completely new to a medium that has gone largely unchanged for centuries.

Looking to breathe new life into old books, Random House have recently released A Clockwork Orange in app form. Packed with meaty extras, ranging from interviews with literary critics to the manic notes of author, Anthony Burgess, the extra dimension afforded by the digital version means that what would have once required a bibliography as thick as the book itself to fully understand the classic book’s place in modern culture, is now infinitely more practical and accessible.

Like The Secret History app we brought you last week, this is another interesting example of how books can respond to, and evolve in the digital world.