Not because we don’t respect the physical book. (We do. It weighs more than a small dog and costs as much as a used espresso machine.) But because knowledge wants to be portable. Searchable. Annotated on a tablet at 2 AM while a pork shoulder slowly approaches thermal equilibrium.
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Because some knowledge isn’t meant to be compressed. And some volumes — even in a digital world — still deserve to be heavy. Not because we don’t respect the physical book