For me, it’s also an antidote to the relentlessly disembodied experience of our digital lives. Collating a book gives me a moment to slow down, to become aware of my physical surroundings again, to appreciate their materiality. I am not only my avatar on the screen; I am a person, sitting at a desk, turning the pages of a book, one that another person wrote, and other people printed, and still other people read. I am real. They are real.
