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on Judge a Book by Its Pixels
Yep, I'm with you on focusing on the verb. And, I have no doubt that technology will improve to the point of capturing format as effectively as it does content.
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on Judge a Book by Its Pixels
As a librarian, I have a simultaneous love of the book as object and resource - a great appreciation for the beauty of good design, for example - but I perceive reading for the most part as a transformative act that exists within the reader, long after it gets put back on the shelf (whether my own or the library's). Maybe electronic books crack open the question of how much reading has to do with consumption. Or rather, physical evidence of consumption: If a reader owns this book and it lives in his personal den, does it mean he has read it? If someone returns a book to the library (or never gets to display it, because it's hidden in a device) - is it as meaningful to that reader? Are we talking about goods or experiences? Or is this issue so complex because books span both? Sure, the Kindle is evidence of ownership, too - but don't you want to know what's inside that Kindle when you see someone reading it on the bus?
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