Abrams and Doug Dorst, a novel released in 2013.

In fact, I own a living proof that always remind me of how great paper book actually is. I’m not just “won’t let go”or being especially nostalgic or pretentious by telling you that I just love how paperback feels. So far I’ve enjoyed everything the digital age could possibly offer, except the fact that digital books are still painfully ugly to read and annoying to interact with.

Gimmicky perhaps–but cool nevertheless.Call me old-fashioned or whatever, I’m for physical books in the paper vs. I really like how they made the pages look old. You immediately come across the margin notes written between the two other readers before you even start the story! Some folks on Amazon have claimed they think the book even SMELLS old, but I can’t quite say i’d agree with that!! One of the reasons I bought the physical book rather than the E-Book version was for these tactile reasons. The book itself looks really like an old school hardcover. There is a library type sticker on the binding

The book comes in a slipcase with a seal you have to break What really interested me was the attention to detail they went through to make this seem like an old book you might have ‘stumbled across’ at a library to discover the notes and random contents Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M.

She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. As explained on the website :Ī young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. So I don’t usually – if ever- take photographs of or blog about a book, but I felt like “S.” by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst was something different enough to make it worthy of a little photoshoot.

The ship of theseus book