Post #2546045
2026-04-15 10:00 UTC
@kwaktrap@mastodon.social My intuition is that if it's a PDF and formatted like a "choose your own adventure" book then it's packaged as a book; if it were an executable and packaged as a game it would be a game even if the content were isomorphic.
(It is of course possible to create edge cases, wherever my boundary between the two lies, and I can readily come up with examples that I can't easily classify.)
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@pseudomonas@mastodon.social 2026-04-15 10:05
@kwaktrap@mastodon.social I've had, elsenet, discussions on "what is a book" and come very firmly to the conclusion that it's one of those situations where there are a large number of factors none of which individually are necessary or sufficient* (format, content, permanence, authorship, marketing…) * though the closest is that it's hard to come up with a paper codex that I wouldn't think is a book, given that I would regard a *blank* paper codex as a book (but a blank PDF or a bundle of unfolded paper, not.)