Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe quality of being a book.
[…] implies a philosophical distinction between bookness and tableness. There is no more requirement to show why an experience cannot be a brain-state than there is to show why a book cannot be a table.
1969, Gerald Eugene Myers, Self: An Introduction to Philosophical Psychology, page 47 - uncountableThe qualities of a book endowing it with its uniqueness or particularity.
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The cover of the book may not be decisive for the content, but its shape, texture, weight and not least “wear and tear” may still be an important aspect of its “bookness” and how we experience it as a book. These “border resources” are lost when every digital copy gets its own form, and hence a relatively established source for interpretation dissolves.
2007, Norbert Streitz, Achilles Kameas, Irene Mavrommati, The Disappearing Computer, page 66
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bookness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookness
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