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A boring book is not proof that a robot wrote it
I have disliked books written by people. This is an awkward fact for the fashionable argument that a flat sentence must have emerged from a machine.
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I hated this book. Years later, I was the problem.
I wrote a severe little note inside the back cover: too slow, too much description, nobody doing anything. The novel then spent several years on a shelf while I became someone with a rather different
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Your reading list has become another damn job
The list had categories, deadlines and a count at the top. It also contained several books I no longer wanted to read. They remained there because removing them felt suspiciously like abandoning a commitment, although
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When a book binding changes the way a page opens
A page that lies flat or springs shut reflects decisions in the sewing, adhesive, spine linings, paper and cover joints. The opening book is a moving system.
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The folds that give a book its order
Before an early printed book was sewn, its pages had to be placed on flat sheets in an order that looked wrong until the sheets were folded. Those folds still help readers and conservators reconstruct books that are damaged, incomplete or oddly made.