I got a shipment from Amazon today of a couple new photo books and I came to the realization that pretty soon the only books that you can't or shouldn't get on an e-reader are the big, well designed art books. Some e-readers don't display color, some have bad images.

Eventually, I realize, they will all have some sort of iPad version so not being able to display proper images is not the reason, just that good photo books are meant to be viewed as books. Until they invent e-readers that display in various sizes, then photo books are still going to be made as books. What I'm talking about is book design which on an e-reader, as far as I know, is limited to text formatting.

I'm not anti-ereader by any means. I am thinking seriously about getting one so that I can read the upcoming Game of Thrones. I am, however anti-hardcover. After you move a few times you come to hate moving huge books. Sorry purists.

The photo books, by the way are:

The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore

and Why Photographs Work by George Barr. Incidentally, it has a brilliant cover.

Both of them are indicative of my move toward trying to work on composition rather than on improving technical knowledge. Technical knowledge to me is better off learned by doing. Inspiration I will always get from viewing other photographs. But one thing that I've always regretted is not really studying composition. I've gone through many different versions of graphic design composition but not really for photography. I'll see what I can glean from these.