True all this. But still there's a joy in holding a record or photographic slide because there's no inscrutable digital device in between the artifact and its s

True all this. But still there's a joy in holding a record or photographic slide because there's no inscrutable digital device in between the artifact and its sensory experience. If you have a hard drive of photos you need a device that you can't build, can't see (at the transistor level), and probably can't fully understand to see the photos. And a hard drive of photos looks the same as a hard drive of songs -- the specialist media has a form molded to its content. Can't describe the joy. Just like it.