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The film was shot as an undergraduate student project by two female students who were “book lovers”. They were students at the new school and this is their final project. Liz is a film studies student and Simone is a literature and philosophy major.
They were concerned about how many people they noticed in NYC who were reading “things” on the subway and those things were not books, but hand-held devices. They were big fans of going to small bookstores, since they came from Amsterdam where there were far fewer kindles, nooks and e-readers (and far more bicycles and small, independent bookstores). So for their student film, they went around NYC and made this artistic statement. It’s still a work in progress, as Liz told me.
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The documentary focus on the technological advancement of printing books and how the way we view and read books has change through out the years. I find it interesting the way people have come enjoy e-books and read things aon a kindle instead of real books.In my opinion i rather read a real book instead of an eletronic copy because for me its hard to focus on reading material that is on a screen rathr than paper. Im sure that there are alot of people like me that will always prefer the feeling of real book instead of electronic one, so im sure the need for actual printed copies of books will never sease to exist.