Books work like films: they take you somewhere, give you unique slices of space that add up to a whole. And if the slices are tickled just so, they can disappear and leave just a trace of themselves. Unlike kids who doodled in the corners of their textbooks I made my first flipbook when I was working at a cartoon studio. As the apprentice, naturally worried about being laid off, I pretended to be busy during lulls, drawing something on a memo pad. I used these flipbooks to make animated films, shooting the contents, showing the act of drawing, playing the random-access pages back and forth to trick the eye's flow of time. But mostly I just like to 

riffle
flip
rub
scrub
strum
thumb
skim
stroke
flick
finger
the pages.