Re:Show HN: Create a papercraft book from any ISBN – experim...
by AlexMuir on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:24PM
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This is true. I downloaded The Game onto my kindle to see what people were talking about and then lent it to my girlfriend which created some questions.
It's a silly project (almost arty in its pointlessness). I can't remember why I thought of it, but I liked the simplicity of pulling combining easily available item dimensions and cover images.
The social aspect of showing a visitor one's bookshelf is definitely getting lost. Even when actively wanting to share reading thoughts or recommandation with someone, it can be awkward to hand over a kindle or iPad with every single book downloaded when some of them touch very private subjects or controversial matters.
As an aside, there is less and less things worth printing out. Papercraft seems to be the best use of a printer nowadays.