In Chapter four, the conversation of interfaces really interested me. Borsuk discussed how we encounter interfaces continually, on many different levels and devices, each being different and unique. She says-  “A good interface, according to human-centered design principles, is like Ward’s crystal goblet: a transparent vessel through which we access the information we want. This invisibility may be marked as utility, but it is not necessarily in our best interest” (page 116). As she discusses the invisibility of interfaces she says how this can harm us, as it limits our ability to understand them. She says this turns us into just consumers, and blocks the ability for us to make content. I thought this was an interesting observation, the Kindle being an example of this, its interface changing the way I read or consume a book. I knew this prior to reading this chapter, but thinking about it-it really does drastically change how I read. I feel like I skip through pages quicker and consume books faster on a Kindle or e-book device, then I would with a physical book. The difference in interface changes the difference in the content I’m consuming, I do not read the same way on a Kindle that I do with a physical book. This conversation about interfaces made me think more deeply about how I consume content on different devices, as well as how an interface in general changes the experience of the consumer. Each interface I consume has a different outcome than the rest, if I read a e book on a computer versus a Kindle, my engagement is deeper on the latter. I had not thought about how important an interface can be when consuming media, and how it overall changes my reading experience.

Another concept that fascinated me was the discussion of the “Physical Archive of the Internet Archive.” The text says “Physical Archive of the Internet Archive, housed in forty-foot climate-controlled shipping containers in Richmond, California, to maintain the books, records, and movies in their digital archive” (page 125). This caught my attention because I grew up 15 minutes away from Richmond, California, and I did not know this existed. I was intrigued with the fact that Borsuk was saying that libraries did not want physical books, which was a part of the creation of the internet archive. I had not thought about the fact that physical books were not wanted, I thought it would be the opposite, but it is interesting to read about how the internet archive was Birthed. A lot of books are being deaccessioned by libraries because the digital format now exists, which is sort of sad to think that digital versions are championing the print versions. Now that I know how I consume digital literature differently than physical literature, I prefer the latter. I enjoyed reading about the digitization of books and the interface as context to reading materials.