1) that seems like a good way to make a book unreadable. like wouldn't the pages fall out of the binding? 2) I suspect this is a troll tweet 3) either way the reaction to it is way overblown
like... good argument against e-books: treating books as a subscription service that can be revoked at any moment by publishers is bad, actually, for several reasons beyond the scope of a goofy shitpost plurk bad argument against e-books: yOu hAVe tO SMeLl iT
yeah like... e-books, as a concept, are great, and helpful for so many people. I just have Concerns about how e-books are treated by major publishers and distributors
>books are not sacred and art made from books is actually pretty cool >books are still bound to the laws of physics and logic >I prefer physical books due to not requiring batteries or recharging but I also have a shitload of ebooks, several of which I bought at the same time as a physical copy of said book to ensure I always have it on me fuck the haters
assuming this isn't a joke it's actually brilliant and people bitching about how others treat their own copies of mass produced, cheaply put together books need to go outside and feel one spf
re: house of leaves, i suspect the reason there's no e-book is because there's a lot of formatting fuckery that would make it difficult to translate into digital form without just converting a bunch of pages into images
it's also harder to follow the multi-page footnotes if you have to scroll down to each new one, while in a physical book you can just put your finger between the pages you need to return to and flip forward
yeah idk if that would work well for House cuz it has like, a lot of footnotes, and some of them are just quick little nothing citations and some of them are 5-page long diatribes from the character who pieced the book together from the trunk full of scraps he found it in
a lot of the reason I tend to go for physical books is me just not being a big fan of DRM + formatting weirdness + the idea that a lot of retailers of digital goods can just decide you don't actually own what you bought
yeah the DRM is the big problem, and also the fact that you need the correct app to read the contents of the book you ostensibly own, so like, fuck you if 30 years down the line nobody supports the format all your e-books are in anymore
bad argument against e-books: yOu hAVe tO SMeLl iT
>books are still bound to the laws of physics and logic
>I prefer physical books due to not requiring batteries or recharging but I also have a shitload of ebooks, several of which I bought at the same time as a physical copy of said book to ensure I always have it on me fuck the haters