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BOOKS
Fetishizing
the Printed
Page
COURTESY OF VISUAL EDITIONS
BY ANDREW LOSOWSKY
IKE PHYSICAL
BOOKS, ebooks have
weight. A computer
scientist at UC Berkeley calculated as much in 2011,
finding that a 4GB ebook reader
filled with 3,500 ebooks weighs a
billionth of a billionth of a gram
more than if it were empty of data
—a difference that is approximately the same weight as a molecule of DNA.
The same number of physical
books would weigh about two tons.
Ebooks aren’t only lighter than
their print counterparts—they’re
also cheaper, instantly accessible
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HUFFINGTON
11.11.12
Jonathan
Safran Foer’s
Tree of Codes
features a
different diecut on every
page.