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Originally Posted by Lemurion
To me, a beautiful artifact is a physical object. I could see an eBook reading device as a beautiful artifact, rather than the eBook itself.
My other point - and we may be talking at cross purposes here - is that not all physical books are beautiful artifacts, so why should we hold eBooks to the beautiful artifact standard if we don't hold all paper books to it?
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The sort of beauty I am talking about (typographic) has "ease of reading" as its primary purpose. It's not about being "loudly" pretty... it's about facilitating the reading process without disturbing the reader.
I've had a at least one person comment that
my PDF version of Casanova's Memoirs is "gorgeous"... and a couple more expressed appreciation likewise that they found it aesthetically pleasing. (There's a
14pt font size version here, if you get seduced.)
I'd say it could be a lot better... but I'm definitely yet to see a nicer edition.
- Ahi