@futurebird @noplasticshower @GinevraCat
That something that has been fallen to institutional amnesia in most modern curricula: That books are a technology, and a pretty well designed one.
We are now better positioned than in the past to understand how good this technology is (random access, good integration with the rapid pattern matching happening in then human visual cortex --- ebooks are an utter disaster in comparison) --- but somehow we (as a civilization) seem ignore this now more than in the past.