Like the creator of an artist’s book who manipulates an Exacto knife to make delicate cutouts in heavy white Italia paper and painstakingly sews the pages together, the writer of an electronic text is intensely aware of the entwining of intellectual, physical, and technological labor that creates the text as a material object.
“Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis”, N. Katherine Hayles (2004)