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Graham Swift

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

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When something becomes digital, especially something like a book that isn’t physical, people often forget that it was created by someone with effort and intention. This can lead to treating digital content as if it simply exists for free and without any human involvement behind it.

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