Blog 6

In Coover The end of book, they talk about many concepts and ideas but one that caught my attention was the obsolescent print technology on page 4. The author describes it as likely to engage in major hypertext fiction of his own. If you can print a whole lot of text it can possibly replace traditional books. It will most likely replace the traditional book in the next half century.

In the Electronic book, one idea that stuck out to me was encyclopedic order on page 83-84. This idea stuck out to me because it offers a solution for both surplus and scarcity. When Books are unavailable the encyclopedia summarizes everything that wasn’t in the original source. It controls the text and the choice of organizing text.