The evolution of the book - Julie Dreyfuss

I'm all for e-books for the practicality, but I will always be in love with the physical book. Nothing beats having a fully stocked bookshelf in your home where you can look over all your fictional adventures and run a finger over their spines.

There's nothing like holding the physical copy of a book. I can never get as immersed in the story if I'm just scrolling down a screen.

When you hear the word "book" what do you imagine?You would usually imagine a cover,the spine,the many pages,and even pictures.You don't imagine an ebook or a kindle.Sure it has words and pictures but it doesn't feel like a book.It doesn't smell like a book.You can't hear the pages turning.In my opinion I don't think all these electronic books are actually books.

I really enjoy the articulate narration and the lucid graphics in this presentation.

For me, any book matters, as long as one can read it. But one cannot argue that having it personally, keeping it in your bookshelf, smelling it's pages and showing it to everyone feels so much better..

What we read (the letters) are important, no matter the presentation. But how could you prefer an electronic book instead of an actual book? the smell, the pages, the fact that you don't have to charge it... amazing. And once you finish it, you get to put it in a bookshelf, like a trophy, something to be proud of.

This would have been more interesting if it had started at clay tablets, went through scrolls and codex's, and ended with e-books. It was still interesting, just didn't seem like it was the evolution of the book.

Please please please include some subtitles or let someone from the community contribute some closed captions. I love your videos but sometimes i have a hard time hearing them 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I've always loved being surrounded by books, because I love the feeling of knowing that each one has it's own charm, the heart and soul of each author. I guess computers are technically the same, but it's a different feeling. When holding the book, you come face-to-face with the words right in your hands. But when owning it on a computer, the words themselves feel "out there" in the interent, and can be filed far away with just a few taps. Though it seems like paper books will eventually go extinct, I don't think they will. I think the majority of readers will always prefer the feeling of a real book over a computer.

This talk contains at least one error. The Chinese invented paper for use in packaging. They wrapped packages in paper, but for writing they used silk. Only later did paper replace silk as the medium for writing.

I believe nothing beats a physical book. The touch, the flipping feel, the sound, the smell!~~~

Beautiful video. Very nicely created and explained.

Thank you so much! .^__^. I shall indeed share this with my "Humanities" students. Also, it's cool how you leave us with a RHETORICAL question rather than tell us what to think.

My dissertation is all about how and why people consume fiction literature. I'm in the middle of my studies right now!

a book has a template, an order, a development, and a length different from a blog, an article, or a letter/email. That content could and would be produced for the standard tangible book experience. It's the content that dictates it's format and production, not the other way around.

a great video, as always. but could you maybe make one about how your animators do their magic? or what software they use? or maybe there is one and I missed it?

I love these cute animations. They are so nice! :D

I love reading and 80% of my reading I do on my kindle. For the past 4 years I've had three of the kindle models and I loved reading on each. The physical size of e-readers and all your books on demand in a single device with a built-in light simply makes it the most comfortable way to read for me. When I read physical books and get engrossed in the story the size and weight don't really matter. It's after all how I've been reading the past 20 years. But e-readers are just more comfortable for longer sessions and for travel.

One of my favourite TED-Ed videos to-date =)

I prefer ebooks since they are cheap and more easy to carry. My 1319 pages lords of the ring was R$37 against R$156 of the physical edition, not to tell the weight of it.