Go, Read: Andy Oliver On Formatting Choices And DIY Culture

Andy Oliver has a piece up at Broken Frontier that's a little bit all over the place but gets at some interesting questions about the effect of formatting possibilities on DIY culture. The main thing that's interesting to me there isn't the old saw of whether or not something that's nicely done plays against the culture but more along the lines of the way certain formatting choices change the way you appraise the book. I'm not sure that's the same thing, and I think sometimes -- not here -- that's assumed. I know that I don't care what an object looks like according to what it's supposed to look like, whatever standard might be used. At the same time, I totally get the feeling that comes up that something in a softcover or Xeroxed form reads and feel differently to me than when that presentation is more elaborately done, or if a book is a hardcover rather than a soft. I'm not sure why that is. I'm not sure Oliver knows, either, but it's fun to read him bat it around a bit.

If nothing else, you might check out Oliver's article and click on some of the links for the huge number of names dropped in the making of the piece.
 
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