You might even be able to fight off a zombie or two by swinging a sizable Oxford Dictionary. You can physically feel your progress through a book as the upcoming pages get fewer and fewer. Not so with ebooks. The physical weight of the book imparts a sense of gravitas. In reading a book you are dealing with a real thing and not just digital wind, so it feels like something to take more seriously, respect more, and value greater than an ebook.
You can write in the margins of books, but not with ebooks. I like to write insults and complaints in my margins. Ebooks are designed for speed with skimming, scrolling, and linking. But physical books are designed for slow processing, with larger pages, no links, and concentrated singular lines of thought. The effect is slowness and patience instead of frenetic haste. With real books, you can hold multiple places at once and flip back and forth between them in split seconds without losing your original place.
This also leads to endless recycling of old books for new people and new shelves. The iconic used-book shop is an important piece of academic noir that calls all participants to be thoughtful, conversant, and intelligent. Ebooks are hard on the eyes, at least when read from tablets, phones, or conventional computer screens. If you are in the thick of a research paper and you need to have five different books open at once, physical books afford that option.
But your E-Reader or you phone does not. But the more tabs you have open, the slower your computer will run, and the more likely it will crash. Books have a feel to them, with texture, thickness, and weight. Compared to the substantial tactile experience of books, a thin little E-Reader feels like a toy. Perhaps the most glaring singular advantage of books is their fitness for deep reading. The effect is that books enable emotional connectivity where ebooks do not.
Good question. Moving from a serious note to a trivial note, physical books are great storage for old letters, receipts, notes, lists, pressed flowers, leaves, or similar thin things. A well-worn book can be veritable storehouse of old memories. Books keep the text stationary; the paragraph on page seven is always on page seven; it will not shift to page eight or page six when you turn your phone sideways.
Ebooks ruin this verbal stability by moving the text all around depending on the orientation of the phone, keyword searches, font-size, and which device you are reading it from. The stationary text is an advantage in its own right, but it has the added benefit of serving spatial memory.
A great deal of our memory and comprehension in reading involves visual-spatial memory. We can find quotes, or remember lines, or retrace a course of thought on the basis of where those words were on the page.
Books work fine without a WiFi password, and no one in a foreign country can hack your book and steal whatever you wrote in your book.
Your E-Reader may still allow you to download a book without a wifi signal, if you at least have a cell phone signal. A trusty old book will not disappoint. He will be just fine, curled up with you, in a log cabin isolated from the rest of civilization. Combining the last three points, books are perfectly suited to keep you off the grid. You can leave your book at your table and go pick up your coffee from the counter, and no one will snatch it like they would with a laptop, tablet, or phone.
Fancy electronics are a liability. Your copy of 50 Shades of Gross has no street-value whatsoever. No one will steal it. Trust me. Each book you read is a new physical experience while ebooks are all just new ways to experience the same old cell-phone or E-Reader, or tablet.
This is a real pet peeve of mine. Have you ever tried to cite a page from an ebook? Me too! Did it work? Author: J. Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present. Received opinion holds that art is culturally-determined and relative. Martel argues that art is an inborn human phenomenon that precedes the formation of culture and even society.
Art is free of politics and ideology. Paradoxically, that is what makes it a force of liberation wherever it breaks through the trance of humdrum existence. Like the act of dreaming, artistic creation is fundamentally mysterious. It is a gift from beyond the field of the human, and it connects us with realities that, though normally unseen, are crucial components of a living world.
While holding this to be true of authentic art, the author acknowledges the presence—overwhelming in our media-saturated age—of a false art that seeks not to liberate but to manipulate and control.
Against this anti-artistic aesthetic force, which finds some of its most virulent manifestations in modern advertising, propaganda, and pornography, true art represents an effective line of defense.
Martel argues that preserving artistic expression in the face of our contemporary hyper-aestheticism is essential to our own survival. Art is more than mere ornament or entertainment; it is a way, one leading to what is most profound in us.
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice places art alongside languages and the biosphere as a thing endangered by the onslaught of predatory capitalism, spectacle culture, and myopic technological progress. First, keep the trim size the height and width of the book to the US standard 6" x 9" This will ensure that you have no extraneous borders and no cut-off words. This Build Your Book page on Amazon has useful guidelines for margin sizes depending on your page count.
Headings and styles can save you a lot of time to get the perfect, consistent look for your masterpiece. These make changing fonts and sizes a breeze while maintaining your chosen formatting throughout the book, no matter how numerous your pages. Again, the robustness of Microsoft Word can make formatting your book a lot easier than you may realize. Next, make sure you add page and section breaks.
These allow you to change the formatting on one page or in one section without affecting the rest of the book. For example, if you have images you want to add, use section breaks to fix the layout, margin sizes, and alignment of the image without altering your other sections.
Hopefully, with your eBook, you already have front matter, back matter, pagination, and any headers or footers you may need.
If not, go ahead and add them because they are necessary for a professional-looking book. This front and back matter will include the copyright page, a dedication page, the title page, and a page about you, the author. Then, you can export your file to PDF. A PDF will standardize and lock down all the elements in your book so the paperback book will look exactly as you have it in that PDF.
Amazon has a full page worth reviewing for exact specifications for basically everything you could need to adjust for your manuscript. Next, create a cover for your paperback book. This is often overlooked, but a great cover will help intrigue your potential readers and increase sales.
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