Does reading lose its value when you can choose one million copies of a slightly different version of a book?

Do we show the infinity of the generated copies? If yes, how?

Does each book need the capacity to exist in infinite variations? Can we decide upon a 'static' version of a book? Is this interesting?

How can the organisation of books be presented in a fair inclusive way? What 'fair' categories/characteristics can we think of for a first 'index' web page?

Do we keep the plain text as a style throughout all editions of the publishing house, reflecting the materiality of code and logging? Or do we also create 'books' that look like more classic / elaborately laid-out books. A more structured lay-out seems to invite a different way of coding that is written with the lay-out in mind, for example by splitting logs into parts. But also, the code to produce the lay-out becomes part of the code, making the scripts less simple and more clearly designed.

What is the status of an automatically generated pdf? Does it only exist in the RAM memory of the reader’s computer, and it becomes a file on a computer if the reader decides to download it? Is each copy saved on a server? Is it a good idea to respond to the field of literature, where the book is considered as something fixed? Can the immediate download be considered as a distribution strategy?

There are several reasons to stick to the format of the pdf for automatically generated books. Would it otherwise not become something else: a media art/a webpage? Would the focus otherwise be not more on the interactivity and the experience of the visitor? Is creating pdfs a way to speak back with an object that is produced by the publishing industry and tradition? Can we take on the dress and habits of that context: we start as a website and freeze it; what is generated is static; it is a quality that it is a pdf; a way to connect to the website and vice versa?

How can one cite automatically generated books?

Is each generated book a unique object? It can be easily copied and redistributed. Should we talk about unique objects? Create NFTs (non-fungible tokens, a way to integrate artworks into Blockchain, wasteful by design...) as unique objects?

How can we imagine the life of generated books? They can be present in different places: on the website, as a pdf, as a book during the walk, shared in the neighbourhood. They can become topics for a workshop: as tools and to open up algorithms to a wider audience.

Is it an idea to open up this platform as a service? This rises other questions: what about curatorship? A publishing house is assuring quality, it is more than a Print-on-demand service.

What about formats of the pdfs? Now they switch between A4 and US A4, so they're easy for homeprinting. Does it make sense to play with formats?

Can we imagine linking the generation of the pdfs to a POD-platform like Lulu?