AUGMENTING AFFECT

While many have predicted the death of the book in the digital age, such a demise has yet to occur. Instead, we see inventive new fusions of the digital and physical, as with interactive augmented reality (AR) books. Walter Benjamin's essay "A Glimpse in the world  of Children’s ' Books" can be seen as a prescient description of the interactive AR reader in the post-digital  age (Holloway-attaway & rouse 2018)Benjamin describes the alchemical, relationship between image, text, story, and the child reader who "overcomes the illusory barrier of the book's surface and passes through colored textures and brightly painted partitions to enter a stage on which the fair tale lives" (p226)