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We're forgetting the materiality of the printed book. Sure, for many books the text is primarily it. But, for many other kinds of books, content is not just in the form of easily translatable form that can be represented in other medium. That's where the materiality comes in. The materiality of a book cannot be reproduced on a digital screen.
We keep conflating information and materiality, as if one were the other necessarily. By we, I include internet pundits, experts, and scholars. We keep forgetting there is a materiality that cannot be reproduced and that materiality can matter--not in all cases but in many cases.
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