I realized that books no longer look like books. Adaptation to what – correctly or incorrectly – is considered the needs of consumers has changed their appearance. Around the world, covers have become advertisements of their books. The dignity that characterizes something self-contained, lasting, hermetic – something that absorbs the reader and closes the lid over him, as it were, the way the cover of the book closes on the text – has been set aside as inappropriate to the times.
— Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to literature
(Source: firzb)
