Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for March 22, 2011
March 21, 2011
March 23, 2011
Transcript:
Adam; So has business been any better at the bookstore? Laura; Ehh, not really. E-books are the only segment that's growing. Adam; E-books. Hmm. Adam; Doesn't it seem rude to exclude the other letters?
Edcole1961 over 13 years ago
Not to be confused with the F-books in the adult section.
runar over 13 years ago
I wonder if there is an e-book version of Gadsby? Of course, for obvious reasons, it could never be called an “e-book”.
cdward over 13 years ago
^Although it lacks “e”, it is a fairly wordy book
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
runar, I was thinking along the same lines, but my mind went to Georges Perec’s La Disparition, which was a whole novel written (in French) without the letter “E”. (And if that weren’t impressive enough, it’s been translated into English several times, similarly without E’s (no E’s-y task?) as A Void (and other titles).
runar over 13 years ago
I recall a book that was in my college library - I can’t remember the title - that was published in a box with loose, unbound pages. It was written in such a way that the text on any one page could run on to the text on any other page, meaning that it is possible to read it, then randomly shuffle the pages, and read it again, and again, and again…. The number of possible readings is, for all practical purposes, infinite. It’s also something that could never be an e-book
If anyone knows about this, please post the title. I’d like to look it up.
snperch over 13 years ago
Probably something by B.S. Johnson