So there are, like, video games that play with the fact that you're looking at a screen, or messing with a controller. There are movies or TV that do similar things. Not enough books play with the physical medium they're in (e.g. House of Leaves). It would be cool to have more books not just user paper and ink as an incidental delivery mechanism for ideas, but as a part of the art.
@benhamill I suspect this has a lot to do with production costs associated with such books?
@lindseyb Messages like... encoded or...?
@benhamill encoded yes
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@lindseyb Cool. I'll have a look. Thanks!
This is actually something I've strongly considered doing for my work, because Sydney Falk is an author but my legal name is completely different, and someday I imagine I might want to prove to someone (without revealing, say, financial documentation) that yes, I AM Sydney Falk.
(I mean, financially, theoretically, I could pull documentation from Amazon and they could confirm it in some way. Theoretically.)
@sydneyfalk @lindseyb Hah! That's a cool idea. "The first letter in every sentence for the first few pages is a character in my public key. Encrypt something and I'll decrypt it, proving I wrote it." :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
@lindseyb For sure. Might be a way to combat the aggressive rise of ereaders for printers, though. IDK.
@benhamill it's also arguably an accessibility issue, like I as much as I love House of Leaves it would be difficult to read with dyslexia and even still without many people struggled to process the text
@lindseyb This is a good call. Bummer.
@benhamill though Poe played with messages in his text