My item of digitalization is one of my favorite novels, Twenty Thousand Leagues under The Sea by Jules Verne. The book was published June 20, 1870. Its format is a physical object. As a description. It is slender, floppy paperback, blue cover of a submarine and giant squid. I chose this object because of how much I enjoyed reading as a kid and still enjoy stories. Specifically, I love adventure stories, Indiana Jones, Tintin, The Mummy, etc. The narrative format of a mission to find an object or otherwise from a time and place away from the present we do not understand has always enthralled me. I find the genres inclination for action visually pleasing and stimulating. The novel itself is also a short and swift read. It may also speak to broader histories as the story is not contemporary. The fact someone from the present, myself, can still read this book more than one hundred years later and still be enthralled speaks to a timelessness Verne captured. I am also a certified scuba diver and find the ocean quite fascinating. Verne captures the wonder and alienlike quality of the underwater world that speaks to the scuba diver in myself.