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Aug. 21st, 2012 04:26 pmOften when I see stuff about New And Interesting Ways of "Doing" Books I hate it, though this is usually when it is books as furniture. I am overall less milliant than I used to be about what other people do with their books (though I have in no way succumbed to leniency overall). The comments on this piece:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/135353
are generally hating the idea, but I think it's really interesting. A publisher has put out a book that "disappears" after two months. I guess it's photosensitive ink, so you'd have to be careful not to open it before you were ready to crack on with it. It would be absolutely terrible if that were the standard for books (and also for this one it doesn't work if you're a really slow reader), but as a one-off I like the idea of a book that can forcibly change how you read it. Also, if I hated it but felt I should go on (Nicola Marlow reading rules), then I wouldn't have it lying around with a ticket stub stuck a third of the way through for years, guilty feeling that I should continue, it would just vanish.
Daniel Kitson's recent theatre show has a character of a man who can't keep anything for more than a day, because he's made all these rules for himself (or as Thom Tuck kept saying in his Disney sequels show "because of plot"). One of the outcomes of this was that it might take him decades to finish a book, because he had to leave it for others at the end of 24 hours. I am not sure why he couldn't go to a library. Obviously he couldn't have a library card, but most libraries you can just go in and sit and read. I spent several afternoons doing this in New Zealand when I was a bit touristed-out.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/135353
are generally hating the idea, but I think it's really interesting. A publisher has put out a book that "disappears" after two months. I guess it's photosensitive ink, so you'd have to be careful not to open it before you were ready to crack on with it. It would be absolutely terrible if that were the standard for books (and also for this one it doesn't work if you're a really slow reader), but as a one-off I like the idea of a book that can forcibly change how you read it. Also, if I hated it but felt I should go on (Nicola Marlow reading rules), then I wouldn't have it lying around with a ticket stub stuck a third of the way through for years, guilty feeling that I should continue, it would just vanish.
Daniel Kitson's recent theatre show has a character of a man who can't keep anything for more than a day, because he's made all these rules for himself (or as Thom Tuck kept saying in his Disney sequels show "because of plot"). One of the outcomes of this was that it might take him decades to finish a book, because he had to leave it for others at the end of 24 hours. I am not sure why he couldn't go to a library. Obviously he couldn't have a library card, but most libraries you can just go in and sit and read. I spent several afternoons doing this in New Zealand when I was a bit touristed-out.
