An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large Portable Book

For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a stu­dent at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the con­cept of a Kin­dle to Charles Dick­ens. Rec­og­niz­ing that Dick­ens, a 19th-cen­tu­ry author, wouldn’t under­stand mod­ern terms like ebooks, down­loads or the inter­net, she decid­ed to take a metaphor­i­cal approach. She craft­ed a “book of books,” a large portable book that con­tained 40 minia­ture ver­sions of clas­sics that Dick­ens might have enjoyed. Among the texts, you will find Don Quixote, Pride and Prej­u­dice, and Oth­el­lo. Also some works by Dick­ens him­self: for exam­ple, David Cop­per­field, Oliv­er Twist, and A Tale of Two Cities. And even some more mod­ern selections—e.g., A Street­car Named Desire and The Catch­er in the Rye. You can find images of Wal­sh’s project on Tum­blr. Enjoy!

via The Atlantic

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