Mr Gray was smart enough to realise two things; firstly that Lulu have made the mechanics of book-making so cheap and easy that you can move straight to the physical form of the thing as soon as you want. The best way to write a book is bundle all your notes and rough thoughts together and stick them in a book. Then carry that around, make amendments, even invite other people to do the same, until you fancy making another version. And one day, who knows there’ll be a definitive ‘finished’ version. But maybe there never will be. The second is that, in many ways, that’s a more interesting and involving thing to own than a finished book. You’re getting an object, but you’re also getting into a little community. He inspired me to make my own book (above on the right) cleverly entitled Notebook 1. I’ve always wondered how different notetaking styles might work for me so I’ve put them all together in one place so I can try it out. Grids. Shapes. Boxes. Lines. Plus I’ve added various things to do in case meetings get boring. Like a simple drawing of Pikachu so I can practise that, get good and impress Arthur. You see what I’m getting at here? Books/paper are proven technologies. Brilliant things. Really good at all sorts of stuff. We’re not in an age where books are about to disappear. But many of the business models associated with them may do. Because we’re getting direct access to book technologies ourselves. (via russell davies: meet the new schtick (2))