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A recent conversation with Ally upon waking up from a nap:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ally: Did you know when I tried to wake you up you said, \u201cCan you pretend I hit the snooze button\u201d?<\/p>\n Antero: Really? I did? So what did you do?<\/p>\n Ally: I came back ten minutes later to wake you up.<\/p>\n Antero: That\u2019s amazing: A snooze button simulates the human action of snoozing. You basically simulated a simulation of a human action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All this functions as a round-about introduction to the fact that I only now discovered that The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet<\/a> has an iOS app. And it looks pretty cool<\/a>. For a book that\u2019s already pushing the general limitations of a printed page, it is exciting to see the text moving in even more directions.*<\/p>\n What I find troublesome, though, is the idea of tangible marginalia as a feature in the app. As the painstakingly detailed portions of Spivet\u2019s notes now move beyond their geographically named \u201cmargin\u201d to take center stage on the app, I wonder if the net gains of such features outweigh the losses. In effect, the process of reading an invigorating text like T.S. Spivet is in holding a book and seeing book-like conventions convey emotion, empathy, and humor in congruity with the main, dominant text.<\/p>\n Like a snooze-button simulacrum, the digital marginalia now mimics an analog mimicry of traditional human actions of annotation and transcription.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n * I should note this was discovered belatedly as a friend<\/a> on Twitter only now points me to the direction of Larson\u2019s blog<\/a> and homepage<\/a>. [A movie adaptation<\/a> of Spivet in the works!? Dios mio!]<\/p>\nTell people this is awesome:<\/h3>