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# Books
- URL: https://www.jaimecalaf.com/books/
- Published: 2026-01-12T03:14:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-12T03:14:47.000Z
- Description: The spatial and tactile sense of a physical book—knowing where it lives, feeling its weight, seeing it on the shelf—creates a different relationship with what you're reading.
- Author: Jaime Calaf 
- Tags: Inter Alia, archive, physical books, reading, spatial memory, cultural resistance, depth over shallowness, #Import 2026-08-26 22:18

There's something irreplaceable about walking to a shelf, pulling a book, and reading. Finishing it, walking back to the shelf, and immediately starting the next one.

The spatial and tactile sense of a physical book—knowing where it lives, feeling its weight, seeing it on the shelf—creates a different relationship with what you're reading. Re-reading becomes natural when the book is right there, not buried in a device competing with notifications.

In a world where shallowness has become the default, resisting it seems like a fine idea.