Oh, don't get me wrong, I didn't intend to diss e-books in general - I'm grateful to the people at Project Gutenberg and others like them for making books available online that are hard to get elsewhere; it's just when I actually spend money for a book I prefer something more tangible.
Anyway, reading about this edition with its load of gimmicks somehow reminds me of Theodor W Adorno's words way back in the 1950s:
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It is striking how these books seem to be ashamed of still being books at all, rather than animated movies or neon-lit shop-windows.
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He was complaining about garishly illustrated book covers; little did he know what the future held in store...