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The digital bibliographer: issues about book technologies in the 21st century

Abstract

This paper discusses the bibliophily and the materialities of the book in digital devices age. Giving more questions than answers and based in real ocurrencies about literary books, here we discuss the implications of (in)definitions about what is a book, as well as the symbolic value of digital and pressed books. Book colections, space and time, the virtual bookcases of evanescent bibliophile are part of this scenario in the 21th century. We design and focuse the digital bibliographer, yet an unknown type of reader.

Keywords:
Paper book; Digital book; Bibliophilia; Bibliography

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