In what may seem like an act of either extreme whimsy or incredible paranoia man has photocopied every page of his Kindle version of George Orwell’s 1984 , creating a paper copy of the digital text.
The physical e-book is the brainchild of artist Jesse England who calls the project “E-Book Backup.” England originally carried out the project in 2012 though people seem to be picking up on it now. Here’s what a lame old e-book looks like When printed out and handsomely bound.
To create his Frankenbook England simply scanned each e-page as you would any old piece of paper.
It’s tempting to see this simply as a work of absurdist art, a sort of quixotic revolt against all that is digital now and ephemeral but on his website England Explains que the project sprang from real very privacy concerns, citing the 2009 case in Which Amazon forcibly removed downloaded copies of 1984 from user Kindles due to a copyright dispute. Since it exists in the physical world the E-book Backup protects users from such examples of digital overreach.
To make things even more meta, after making his physical copy England Then uploaded the scanned version back to his Kindle ., creating a hall of mirrors effect and one very hard to read book
Your move, Internet
[h / t Geekologie | Photos: Jesse England].
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