The author wilfully avoids having 94 sections which would have divided the book in two parts right at the end of the crucial section 47. These are just clever and amusing details, to be sure. Still, they can very well illustrate the general point. Printed text is bound to unique physical implementations. Its content cannot be entirely abstracted from the palpable, tangible pages onto which it is printed.
Books are objects , sharing certain properties with tables, bricks and ropes.
One has to offer an account involving a general notion of text that can be shown to underly progressive development and qualitative change. Even though I have only indicated some problems in G. Landow's approach to electronic textuality and not touched upon the rest of the literature it seems, at this point, safe to point towards a typical impasse with respect to comparisons between traditional and electronic texts. This is no help in clarifying digital textuality, since it simply assumes that texts can feature as electronic processes. Alternatively one might wonder how to describe operations performed on texts once they are cast in digital form. There is no guarantee for such operations to preserve textuality.