I really like the idea of reviving the art of bookmaking! I guess it might be a bit like photography in a way...as more people go digital, fewer prints will be made, and more thought will go into the ones that are. Some types of books still do work best in print; e-readers can not (yet?) duplicate the effect of things like paper texture, die cuts, embossing, or foil stamping, and it would be wonderful if some of the resources that currently go into printing textbooks and mass producing paper books that are read once (if at all) and then discarded could be redirected so we can have more art books and well crafted story books!
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ninetydegrees
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on 2011-03-23 08:53 am (UTC)I guess it might be a bit like photography in a way...as more people go digital, fewer prints will be made, and more thought will go into the ones that are. Some types of books still do work best in print; e-readers can not (yet?) duplicate the effect of things like paper texture, die cuts, embossing, or foil stamping, and it would be wonderful if some of the resources that currently go into printing textbooks and mass producing paper books that are read once (if at all) and then discarded could be redirected so we can have more art books and well crafted story books!