Domestic Routines and Design for the Home
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
AutoTopography: what can physical mementos tell us about digital memories?
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
On human remains: Values and practice in the home archiving of cherished objects
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Antiquarian answers: book restoration as a resource for design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Laying the table for HCI: uncovering ecologies of domestic food consumption
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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E-books are becoming ubiquitous. Whether or not they will eventually replace books or merely complement them, there is a concern that something important might be lost in moving from print to digital books. While there is a wealth of research into the challenges and opportunities of e-reading, there is little research aiming to understand the broader role of books in everyday life. Rather than speculating on what books are in the digital age, in this paper, we wish to ask what books do. To do so, we conducted a series of in-depth interviews with ten UK households to understand everyday uses of books. Our findings suggest that books are not merely reading technologies but a resource for everyday social and personal engagements. We discuss re-framing books as social technologies and implications for the design of e-books.