There's more than way to read a book — six, to be exact. A recent flickr post on The National Library of Sweden shows a 16th Century dos-à-dos (back to back) binding that can be opened six different ways! Like R.L. Stein's Reader Beware, You Choose The Scare! when I was growing up, flipping the pages with anticipation of what was lurking on the fated page. It reminded me of the books we saw in class, and the ways that publishers experiment with a books format. More photos and stories can be found at The Colossus. Enjoy!
Bradley
Thanks, Brad! I totally loved this. And no - an e-book certainly cannot do that! Even if you store sixty books on your kindle, there's no way to replicate the feel of the leather, the cool touch and faint click of the clasps as they open and close, or the smell of the pages. At least there is no way to replicate it yet... :)
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