IntroductionSami Sjoberg, Mikko Keskinen and Arja KarhumaaOpening Experimental Book Objects: The Heterogeneity of the Codex in the Twenty-First CenturyI Book MattersJan Baetens, Olivier Deprez, Books and CompanyEmily Brennan-Moran and Torsa Ghosal, Excessive Tactility of 9/11 Book MemorialsDanuta Fjellestad & Sami SjobergPerformative Materiality of Book Inserts: The Case of S. and Personal EffectsMikko Keskinen, The Two-Layered Book and Storyworld, with Transgressions: Graham Rawle’s OverlandJuri Joensuu, Literary Mutilation: Typographical and Material Abuse in Finnish Experimental Poetry and Book ArtJuha-Pekka Kilpio, Punched Pages: Holes in Experimental Print LiteratureOskari Rantala, The Disintegrating (Comic) Book Object and the End of the Narrative Universe in PrometheaII Book MediationsStella Bolaki, Bound to Matter: Artists’ Books and Illness ExperienceLaura PiippoLooking Back to Now: Book as Technology of Remembering the Present in Jatkosota-extra by Jaakko Yli-JuonikasWojciech Dr?g, The Dispersed Self, the Database and Digital Biography: David Clark’s 88 Constellations for WittgensteinSara Tanderup Linkis, Performing E-bookness: Remediation and Meta-Mediality in the E-book Edition of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year SwordIII Book DesignsLeslie Atzmon, Gender, Transgression, and Ritual Torah PreparationZach Dodson, Bookish Biomes: The Writing and Design of KUU, a Paper EcosystemPauliina Nykanen & Arja Karhumaa, Body Text: Exploring Somatic Devices in the Design of Hybrid Books Fun Primavera and YoursZoe Sadokierski & Cecilia Heffer, Encountering Lace Narratives: Designing a Multimodal Book to Capture the Complexity of Practitioner-ResearchNick Thoburn and Nick Thurston, Papercuts: The Horizons of Minor PublishingAfterwordJohanna DruckerDirect Objects: Critical Ways to Think a Book