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kleinbl00  ·  3509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let’s Talk About Margins

Your comicon adventure sounds like about as much fun as an ebola-gargling party. But then, the people I didn't go with sent me selfies with George RR Martin so maybe I'm just jealous.

On a completely unrelated note

I wonder how much of the fetishism for paper and all its glory parallels the fetishism for album covers and the smell of dust jackets. Yeah, there's a glorious tangibility to it all but it seems to me that if it really mattered all that much, the authors would be a lot more involved in the design and layout of books. And they ain't. Not at all.

So what we're left with is a bunch of craftsmen with an unmistakeable skill who would just as happily practice it on 500 pages of lorem ipsum. Meanwhile, the actual content doesn't much care what font it's in, what its padding is or what its margins are.

Don't get me wrong. The layout of Douglas Coupland's Generation X was novel and cool.

But it was also distracting.