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Absolutely. I read GEB in high school, and have often thought of reading it again, but it's a hefty book to carry around. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll se
by mdiep 15y ago
Absolutely. I read GEB in high school, and have often thought of reading it again, but it's a hefty book to carry around.
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see an eBook edition too soon. Hofstadter describes himself somewhere (in the GEB preface, maybe?) as very picky about the layout of his books. I remember him saying that he would sometimes rewrite sentences in order to make the layout better.
- ugh 15y agoHe describes in some later edition how he typeset the book himself which is in itself a towering achievement (with him not being a typesetter and all).
- RockofStrength 15y agoHofstadter cares a lot about form, and thinks it is intimately connected to function. I believe in the end of "I Am a Strange Loop" he said that he edits every single line of text so it fits evenly and aesthetically across the line. In other words, each line must stretch to the far right of the page, but the letters can't be stretched out/separated too much. This must be extremely tedious to accomplish.