It turns out to be a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.

它其实是一本高质量、异常严谨的咖啡桌书籍，写作的初衷是让读者大致浏览里面的内容，而不是从头读到尾。

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Advertising in books - the tangible things that you put on your shelf or leave on your coffee table - seems weird. But e-books aren't a possession. You can't lend an e-book to a friend.

书里面的广告是有形的，你会把他放在书架上或放在咖啡桌上，这听起来有点奇怪。

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But there's personal photo album you're gonna treasure and you have a nice coffee table book at the end with all of your pictures etc.

但你也可以制作将要收藏的个人相册，最后就可以有一个装帧精美的图册，里面都是你的照片等等。

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The ultimate coffee table book is itself a coffee table.

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In the relentless drive to turn physical things into virtual ones, the purpose served by the coffee table book will soon be served by the coffee table itself, and for the same reasons.

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Long story short: I wrote it as a chapter book instead of a coffee table book because I have a lifetime of material on the subject and I wanted to share it.

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