
Google, Volume 1
By King Zog
The digital era has irrevocably transformed traditional print publishing, with iPads and Kindles among the phenomena revolutionising the way people digest information today. The inverse effect, however, is rarely explored, and the translation of digital to print has been a rocky road. One ingenious effort by Parisian publishing house Jean Boîte Editions has made a firm case for making our online quotidian tangible, with a hefty tome mapping the first Google result image for each word in the Oxford Pocket Dictionary in alphabetical order. Comprising over 22,000 screenshots, the book is the first in a series, but just like the lightning speed of our digital lives, those terms and their associations will be due for an update - right about now.
Published by Jean Boîte Editions, €95
Writer: Dan Thawley