I came across this blog entry [The Demanding Precision of Book Arts] today over at the Barnes & Noble site, under the "Unabashedly Bookish" section.  Despite the fact that I'm a huge ebook advocate--as you might know from previous blog entries--I have a lifelong appreciation for the tactile pleasure of physical book.  This article is worth checking out.  It may incite you, as it did me, to dwell on the pleasure of touching ideas and worlds bound in paper.  And if you want to know what my favorite part of a bound, print book is, read on, because it's at the end....