In explaining the project, Maltz noted that instead of laboring on lengthy novels, Borges opted to simulate books that already existed, and write their summaries.
Some, like a copy of Drew Magary's The Postmortal, even have a conceptual side: to match an illustration of the grim reaper stabbed with his own scythe, the creators of Ice Cream Art simulated the book being stabbed through the heart with a Paleo strawberry popsicle.
The app is a reader that simulates a book, down to pages that turn with a satisfying "fwip" sound when you drag a finger across the screen.
Fields holds out both hands with palms up, simulating a book; Lin flips a few imaginary pages; and then the two guards simulate putting on glasses before putting them away in a shirt pocket.
As with many other book apps for children, this one includes a coloring book option, simulated jigsaw puzzles and games for many pages.
No one, as far as Watson knew, had successfully simulated an entire letterpress book.
"An arduous and impoverishing delirium, that of composing immense books," Jorge Luis Borges remarked in the prologue to "Ficciones," his own best-known anthology of short stories; a "better procedure is to simulate that those books already exist and offer a commentary".
Regulators ran its books through a simulated economic downturn in stress tests announced last month, and the bank passed.
Near Maienfeld is Heididorf, the simulated village and house of the book.
When that feel — the scent, the heft, the old book smell — can be simulated do we need to visit a bookstore?
