How to open a new book ?

http://lisnews.org/how_open_new_book

Here's a lovely illustration of how to open a new book.

In the days of nook and kindle and ipad, such illustrations may soon become archaic. Already, I look at them the way I regard cave paintings (how to light a flintstone; how to capture a wooly mammoth).

Companies all over are battling with huge book inventories that don't have a hope of selling.

Meanwhile, new  companies  such as Espresso are ushering in print-on-demand technologies.


Soon, any book we read is probably going to be mint-fresh literally.

And such illustrations may yet have a hope of being useful.