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The article discusses the materiality of electronic books (e-books). The author argues that e-books must be analyzed through the forensic frameworks of bibliography and textual scholarship and the non-empirical framework of performance theory. He focuses on the contentious publication of the book "The Sentimentalists," by Johanna Skibsrud, and its relations to the materiality of text. The author questions whether readers of the electronic version actually engage with same novel as those who read the traditional print version.