It's too bad you can't hold the leather in your hands.
Or gasp at what the Madonna "Sex" book smells like after it's been flooded with Katrina waters.
But I'll show you the art of books. How a row of them, one of them, or a set can all be a part of the experience of reading.
What is a text anyway? Theorists try to separate "work" and "text" and "author" and "story" -- I want to just show you the books.
Newspapers continue to suffer. Music is free -- movies will be. Will books survive? Is the feel of the cover, the pages, the little attached bookmark all part of the experience of reading? Of course.
