Analog Graphic Design to Die for: 5 Fantastic Die-Cut Books

Kindles and iPads have a lot of advantages—but they still can’t duplicate paper cutouts. Here’s a roundup of impossible-to-digitize reading. For all their wonder and promise, one crucial component of the joy of reading still eludes the publishing platforms of the future: holding a beautifully bound, meticulously designed, thoughtfully crafted tome in your two hands.

Hardly does that tactile delight get more intense than with a magnificent die-cut book. (Die-cutting is a process using a steel die to cut away sections of a page.) Here are five old-timey treasures that will make you swoon in rediscovered awe of the analog.