To defend the book just for the form of the codex book is to focus on the box and not the contents.
Publishing does not lack, after all, for examples of industries and bureaucracies that have trained themselves around a particular technology and perished with it. Why should the E-book share this fate? If we fail to understand the expressive environment of our time, we will have failed in our duty as transmitters of culture, whether we think the culture to be preserved consists of Dead White Males with their holy works...
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