Physical intervention
The Strange Library
Haruki Murakami, 2005
The illustrated English edition, designed by Chip Kidd, opens with a folding flap like a library pamphlet and mixes found images into the story, so handling the object is part of reading it.
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How it’s read
- Physical intervention
- Die-cut pages, inserts, objects, or ephemera.
Details
- First published
- 2005
- Original language
- Japanese
- Medium
- Needs the physical object
- Yes. An ebook or audiobook would lose the effect.
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