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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2024

Laura Dietz
Laura Dietz
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University College London
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E-books and ‘Real Books’
Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness
 , pp. 247 - 252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Index

CSS stylesheet, 46
24symbols, 76
A Prayer for Owen Meany, 90–91
AAAAARG, 218
AAARG. See AAAAARG
abibliophobia, 109, 132
‘backup book’, 187
ableism, 31, 33–34, 189
accommodating book, 113, 116, 132
demanding book, 129, 150
accommodating reader, 150
Active Book, 24
Adams, Douglas. See Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
ADHD, 115
Afternoon, a story, 19, 23
Agrippa. See Gibson, William
Amazon, 9, 53, 92, 98, 108, 192
‘1 click’, 70
47North, 57
Amazon Prime Video, 104
as ‘judging’ readers, 146, 156
book recommendations, 155–156
boycott of, 174
conditional use licence, 61, 70, 180
and contradictory narratives of realness, 64
CreateSpace, 192
as e-book retailer, 6, 23
‘ethos of bookishness’, 26, 130, 148
Kindle, 2, 6, 9, 25–26, 41, 112
Kindle and immersion, 126–127
Kindle app, 44, 47, 103, 125
Kindle as ‘library in my bag’, 85
‘Kindle Christmas’, 77
Kindle device development, 3, 23–24, 130
Kindle Direct Publishing, 9, 57, 138, 140
Kindle Oasis, 104–105, 160, 176
Kindle Paperwhite, 105
Kindle Popular Highlights, 117, 178–179
Kindle Scribe, 105, 176
Kindle Singles, 180
Kindle Store, 3
Kindle Unlimited, 9, 76, 85, 137, 192
Kindle Unlimited and novels, 8
Kindle Unlimited and self-publishing, 1, 138
Kindle Voyage, 104–105
Kindle, sharing books on, 79
PagePress, 104
Prime, 105
Prime Reading, 76, 85, 137
and privacy, 157
reader feelings regarding, 72, 161, 174–175
terms and conditions, 5, 68
Timeline, 104
trust or lack of trust in, 86–87
Whispernet, 41
X-ray, 104, 122
American Library Association, 65, 216
Annotation, 177–178
Apple, 2, 9, 86, 180, 192, 216
as e-book retailer, 6
iBooks, 23
iPad, 23, 125
iPhone, 23
iPod Touch, 23
trust or lack of trust in, 87
Archer, Jodie, 143
Armstrong, Nancy, 236
artificial intelligence, 42
AI authorship, 74
and author status, 191–192
Large Language Models, 66
Avon Impulse, 54
Barnes & Noble, 176, 216
Baron, Naomi, 93
Baudrillard, Jean, 17
Berens, Kathi Inman, 65, 88
Bezos, Jeffrey P., 26, 78, 105, 130, 148, 197
reader feelings regarding, 161, 174
Bhaskar, Michael, 165
Bible, 23, 120
bibliophilia, 12, 134, 148, 168–172, 188
and bookshops, 172
and feelings about Amazon, 174
and gender, 170, 173
bibliomania, 162, 164
compatibility with digital reading, 172
negotiating definitions of the term, 162
‘readingophile’, 164, 173
and reading devices, 84, 174
Big Five, 54, 56
Bilandzic, Helena, 123
Birke, Dorothee, 20, 39
Birkerts, Sven, 147, 185–186
BitTorrent, 67, 72
Bolter, Jay David, 17, 33
book gifts, 41–42, 77–79, 81, 90, 98, 177
book history, 5–6, 14, 18, 40
Book Industry Study Group, 65
Bookman, 23
book rental, 71
bookshops, 35, 44
and bibliophilia, 171
physical bookshops, 8, 84
Bookstagram, 22, 41
BookTok, 41
Borsuk, Amaranth, 17, 208
Bourdieu, Pierre, 21, 134–135, 143
Brown, Bob, 10, 22, 147
Brown, Brené, 145
Buchsbaum, Shira, 177
Bush, Vannevar, 10, 22
Busselle, Rick, 123
Byliner, 56
Caro, Robert, 214
CD ROM, 2, 23
censorship, 24
certainty, 31–33
childcare, 95, 111–113
Christ, Birte, 20, 39
Chronicles of Narnia, 3
Colbjørnsen, Terje, 143
comic books, 91
digital comics, 180
communications circuit, 7, 12
content, 165–166
book as ‘container’, 167
Coover, Robert, 24, 59
Copyright Term Extension Act, 63
cover design, 35, 42–43
COVID-19, 8, 78, 84, 107
and access to personal book collections, 130
and book piracy, 65
and feelings towards e-books, 160
and library usage, 69, 75
Creative Commons, 64
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 123
cultural capital, 133, 151
position-takings, 147
customisation, 117
Darnton, Robert, 7
Data Discman, 24
Daunt, James, 97
Davis, Natalie Zemon, 78
de Certeau, Michel, 72
debates on ‘death of the book’, 14, 148, 168
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 100, 164
digital audition, 87, 92, 187, 192
digital distraction, 121–122
digital fiction, 23
digital humanities, 5, 11, 14
digital proxy, 11, 36, 47, 91, 105, 186–187
digital reading copy, 90
Digital Rights Management, 45
disability, 114
display, 133, 153
Driscoll, Beth, 139
Drucker, Johanna, 5, 17–19, 25, 32, 34, 46, 128
dyslexia, 114
Open Dyslexia font, 116
Eastgate, 37
Eberhard, Martin, 197
Eichhorn, Kate, 166, 191
electronic book, 22
elitism, 31, 33
Elsevier, 216
empathy, 131, 172–173
engagement, 121–131, 191
‘lost in a book’, 93, 120–127, 191
ludic, 48
English, James, 21, 135
Ensslin, Astrid, 21
equivalence, 36, 58
ersatz book, 11, 36, 59–60, 91, 105, 186–187
Facebook, 80
fan fiction, 64, 142–143, 217
fan binding, 177
Ferris, Ina, 165
Fifty Shades of Grey, 65, 138, 142–143, 185
Flint, Kate, 147, 236
Franklin Electronics, 23
Franzen, Jonathan, 136, 173
Friedman, Jane, 62
front matter, 57
Fuller, Danielle, 6
Galey, Alan, 10, 17, 19, 21, 34, 43, 46–47
games, 23
gatekeeping, 54, 134
GE TermiNet 1200, 2
Gemstar, 197
Genette, Gérard, 20, 36–37, 39
Gibson, William, 19
Gitelman, Lisa, 5, 18, 27, 100
Gooding, Paul, 20
Goodreads, 22, 104, 179
Google, 62, 86, 216
Google Books, 50, 63–64
Green, Melanie, 123, 125
Grigar, Dene, 39
Grusin, Richard, 17, 33
The Gutenberg Elegies, 147
Hachette, 9
Harlequin Romance, 192
HarperCollins, 9
Hart, Michael, 63
Hayler, Matt, 18, 126–127, 148
Hayles, N. Katherine, 17–18
Heller, Michael, 67, 70, 74
Henrickson, Leah, 74, 191
Hicks, Mar, 148
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 3
Hoofnagle, Chris Jay, 70–72, 77
Hoskins, Valerie, 142
Hou, Jinghui, 123, 125
Howey, Hugh, 180
Hulu, 193
Humble Bundle, 180
Humble, Nicola, 139
Hungerford, Amy, 21
Hutchings, Tim, 120
Hyde, Lewis, 191
HyperCard, 23
Hypertext fiction, 23
IBM Selectric, 147
IMDb (Internet Movie Database), 104
immersion. See engagement
Immersive Media and Books 2020, 65
incomplete book, 11, 106, 113, 132, 151, 186–187
Independent Book Publishers Association, 65
Ingram Content Group, 216
inheritance of books, 71, 74
INKE project, 19–20, 201
insomnia, 111
Intel, 216
Intellectual property
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 24
intellectual property law, 62
intermedia, 23
International Digital Publishing Forum, 216
Internet Archive, 226
ISBN, 8
Ithaka, 216
James, E. L., 142
Jenner, Mareike, 234
Jockers, Matthew, 143
Joyce, Michael, 19, 23
Kennedy, Kimberly, 177
Kickstarter, 180
Kindle. See Amazon
King, Stephen, 24
Kirschenbaum, Matthew, 5, 17–18, 23, 45, 63
Kobo, 160
Koegler, Caroline, 15
Kuiken, Don, 124–125
Leavis, Q. R., 135
legitimacy, 14
Lendle, 79
Lessig, Lawrence, 63–64
libraries, 42, 62, 69, 75, 98
culling books from personal library, 84, 89, 130
e-books as part of personal libraries, 84–86
New York Public Library, 26
personal libraries, 5, 82–84
public libraries, 108
storage space, 84
Library Genesis, 66
literary festivals, 22
literary prizes, 3
literary status, 21–22
discredit, 134, 143, 146
‘highbrow’, 78, 136, 165
‘middlebrow’, 136, 139, 173
status and gender, 139
women as ‘incompetent readers’, 135, 138–140, 151
Lulu, 176
Macmillan, 9
Malloy, Judy, 23, 208
Mangen, Anne, 6, 94, 124–125, 131
The Martian, 53
materiality, 10, 14, 18–19, 97
appreciation for the ‘insides’ of books, 165
book flavour, 100
book smell, 4, 96, 100, 150, 152, 160, 192
contingent materiality, 34
‘intangibility’ of digital books, 100
materiality scepticism, 150
McCracken, Ellen, 20, 39, 42, 104
McGann, Jerome, 18, 118
McLuhan, Marshall, 147
media archaeology, 5
Memex, 10, 22
memory, 124, 130, 153, 159, 179
Microsoft, 216
Mindwheel, 23
Morris, William, 118
Murray, Simone, 5, 21, 26, 172
Netflix, 190, 193
Netgalley, 85
Nissenbaum, Stephen, 77
Nook, 24, 129
Noorda, Rachel, 65, 88
Norrick-Rühl, Corinna, 15, 37
Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille, 216
novel, 8–9, 22–24, 112, 135
graphic novels, 95, 125
and rereading, 159
NuvoMedia, 130, 197, 216
Open eBook Authoring Group, 166, 216
Open Road Publishing, 212
Open University, 216
Oprah’s Book Club, 136, 173
other celebrity book clubs, 22
OverDrive, 65
Libby, 220
Oyster, 87
PalmPilot, 2
pandemic. See COVID-19
paratext, 11, 20–21, 36–48, 146
discerning authorial intention, 36–48
durable peritext, 44
epitext, 40, 56
event paratext, 47
peritext, 40, 79
precarious peritext, 44
Patreon, 180
Penguin. See Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House, 9
Alibi, 54
Hydra, 54
Perzanowski, Aaron, 70–72, 77
photoshop, 35, 43
physical weight, 96, 99, 149, 161
piracy, 65–67
Pirate Bay, 42, 66
platform studies, 5, 15
PLATO, 22
Ploughshares Solos, 54
Pressman, Jessica, 147, 204
Price, Leah, 5, 26, 92, 118, 165
principled resistance, 72, 92, 187
Print-On-Demand, 54, 176
privacy
and reading of low-status books, 140
‘binge reading’, 138
concern for print privacy as a bookish trait, 158
‘furtive reading’, 137
intellectual privacy, 158
reading in print to evade tracking, 156–159, 182
women as ‘furtive readers’, 138, 182
progress narratives, 148
Project Gutenberg, 23, 42, 49–50, 63, 98, 108
and novels, 23
development of, 63
and Silicon Valley ethos, 62
source for ‘classics’, 141
terms and conditions, 67
and tracking, 157
publishing studies, 5
Radway, Janice, 5, 172
Random House. See Penguin Random House
Ray Murray, Padmini, 7
Readies, 10, 22, 147
reading comprehension, 94
Rehberg Sedo, DeNel, 6
relocation
forced relocation/loss of home, 90
moving house, 82, 88, 130
Renegade Bindery, 177
Repurchasing, 154
Richards, Neil, 81, 158
Rocket eBook, 2–3, 23–24, 130
Rowberry, Simon, 16, 21
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), 136
Rubery, Matthew, 22
Salzman, James, 67, 70, 74
Schwabach, Aaron, 65
Sci-Hub, 66
Scribd, 76, 98, 137
self-publishing, 36, 42, 52–56, 60, 134, 143
single-author imprint, 57
Shep, Sydney, 18
Sieghart Review, 62
Simon and Schuster, 9
Skains, R. Lyle, 218
snobbery, 4, 14, 33, 53
SoftBook, 216
Sony, 216
Sony Reader, 24
Squires, Claire, 7, 21, 135
Storyspace, 23
Streitfeld, David, 185
Striphas, Ted, 26
Studer, Seth, 173
Styron, William, 62
Takayoshi, Ichiro, 173
Tarpenning, Marc, 197
Technophilia, 86, 134, 148, 167, 175
and Kindle, 175
Tenen, Dennis Yi, 22, 24, 166
terms and conditions, 70–71
Terras, Melissa, 20
Tether, Leah, 20
The WELL, 23
Thibodeau, Kenneth, 18
Thomas, Bronwen, 9, 224
Thompson, John B., 21, 87
Todd, Anna, 65, 185
travel, 1, 75, 90, 109, 111, 121
commuting, 88, 109, 120, 136, 140, 144, 174, 190
Uglow, Tea, 189
UK Intellectual Property Office, 65
Uncle Roger, 23
van der Weel, Adriaan, 131
Warde, Beatrice, 127
Warwick, Claire, 20
Waterstones, 97
Wattpad, 8, 22, 65, 140, 185
Wendell, Sarah, 144
Werner, Sarah, 23
Wired, 176
Woolf, Virginia, 36
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 216
YouTube, 24, 41
YouVersion, 120
Zoom, 121

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  • Laura Dietz, University College London
  • Book: E-books and ‘Real Books’
  • Online publication: 07 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009490795.010
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