I recently attended a meetup centered on the future of the book. How will our digital future accommodate the current notion of a ‘book’? According to one of the evening’s speakers, we read (and write!) much more today than we did a decade ago. However, what is changing is the manner in which we read. Let me elaborate. Instead of using the word ‘book’, we could use the word ‘narrative’. Today, we no longer have time for a ‘narrative’. We read paragraphs, snippets, tweets. We jump from one hyperlink to another, and after lingering no more than a split-second, we already know if we like the page, or if we don’t. We have become a crowd that is hard-to-please and not easily captivated – the digital universe lies at our feet. We have come to love nonlinearity. Today, there are a zillion ways in which we can augment a text. A pen that records sounds, and knows your location in a notebook. A book that changes subject when it notices that you’re getting bored. A font that morphs in accordance to the weather outside. Reading is an experience that could be so much richer, more involving, more emotional. Quoting Jan Millsapps: “Is it a book and are we still reading it?’ The day we will ask ourselves this question might come soon.