"The physical book does not exist, and has no value. The digital book has no front or back covers; there is no place to assert ownership, and there is nothing to own. The “digital delivery module” is a piece of molded plastic made in China, encasing a few memory chips. That is not the book, that’s the “reader.” Wait, I thought I was the reader. Oh, never mind."
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Alex Beam in Psychology of the Bookplate, an article worth checking out not only for historical background on bookplates, but also for the slideshow.
(via NYTimes Paper Cuts Blog)
(via 52books)
