In ‘Words’, Jean-Paul Sartre describe us how books are objects that represent an immense meaning in his life and how they have shaped his nature during his childhood. These objects are physical testimonies of an inherited history and identity of his ancestors, which shapes his life today and more surely will continue to pass on to future generations. Sartre eloquently describes the feelings that he has for these books as anyone passionate for books would, but it’s the relationship between the physical object and the person that makes this artifact so special. Books are very much acknowledged objects into our today’s culture, to the point of not being taken for granted, but plenty of people look at this object as a constant reminder of past
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The book is nothing if it’s not hold and felt; opened and read. As any other object it ages, it cracks and during its use, the book changes, moves while it’s handled and read page after page. While reading, the person and the book becomes as one; seated on the bus on the way to work or laying on the grass in the park, the book becomes part of the body and will keep changing its physiognomy in time. The same doesn’t happen with e-books, where there is no changes in the way it behaves, which it mean there isn’t a relationship with the object. As a researcher on e-books statistics from Norway's Stavanger University, Anne Mangen said "When you read on paper you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, and shrinking on the right,". She also states that people that read from e-books absorb less information than reading from a physical book, "You have the tactile sense of progress, in addition to the visual...The differences for e-book readers might have something to do with the fact that the fixity of a text on paper, and this very gradual unfolding of paper as you progress through a story, is some kind of sensory offload, supporting the visual sense of progress when you're reading. Perhaps this somehow aids the reader, providing more fixity and solidity to the reader's sense of unfolding and progress of the text, and hence the
The book is nothing if it’s not hold and felt; opened and read. As any other object it ages, it cracks and during its use, the book changes, moves while it’s handled and read page after page. While reading, the person and the book becomes as one; seated on the bus on the way to work or laying on the grass in the park, the book becomes part of the body and will keep changing its physiognomy in time. The same doesn’t happen with e-books, where there is no changes in the way it behaves, which it mean there isn’t a relationship with the object. As a researcher on e-books statistics from Norway's Stavanger University, Anne Mangen said "When you read on paper you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, and shrinking on the right,". She also states that people that read from e-books absorb less information than reading from a physical book, "You have the tactile sense of progress, in addition to the visual...The differences for e-book readers might have something to do with the fact that the fixity of a text on paper, and this very gradual unfolding of paper as you progress through a story, is some kind of sensory offload, supporting the visual sense of progress when you're reading. Perhaps this somehow aids the reader, providing more fixity and solidity to the reader's sense of unfolding and progress of the text, and hence the