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Originally Posted by TheJohnNewton
Are people highly attached to a bunch of bound paper with ink smudges on it or to engaging intellectually with the CONTENTS of a book? I'm putting my money on the latter.
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I couldn't agree more. The binding of the book is its clothes, but the mind of the author, and the soul of the book, is in the contents. Looking back at the best most influential books I've read, they owe none of their influence whatsoever to the binding (legibility assumed, of course), and ALL of it to the contents. I'm not concerned about cover art or embedded pictures or color displays. Give me the communication of the author, make it readable, and the job is done!