Jak ekrany stawały się książkami

The book "Między kartką a ekranem. Cyfrowe eksperymenty z medium książki w Polsce" ["Between Page and Screen: Digital Experiments with the Medium of the Book in Poland"] (2018) by Piotr Marecki is of an overviewing, typologizing and systemizing nature. Its author points to the diversity of media and cultural entanglements which have accompanied the evolution of literacy interfaces since the 1970s. Marecki focuses on the Polish adventures with book digitality, which is certainly not inferior to its foreign variants, becoming part of the world heritage of electronic literature classics. The author follows the evolution of media forms in particular authors’ manifestations at the junction of the culture of “page” and the culture of “screen” (i.a. Józef Żuk Piwkowski, Robert Szczerbowski, Małgorzata Dawidek or Wojciech Bruszewski). In his argument, the book as such becomes a representative of the whole civilization process which has changed modern media cultures so profoundly. Marecki emerges as a wise and creative successor and continuator of the reflection by the classics of the subject, such as Jay David Bolter and N. Katherine Hayles. His book is intelligent, much-needed and short, and it is also able to both satisfy experts and serve as introductory reading for laymen in the field.