'Reflection on Digestion' is a short text in 'The Book is Alive!', which contextualises 'Reflection on Digestion', the epic, eighteen-page concertina book work and the scribing performance, 'Reflection on Digestion', at the BOOKLIVE! international conference at South Bank University in June 2012 that originated the manuscript.

'The Book is Alive!' is a survey of current thinking and innovative practice in contemporary publishing, exploring the rapid 'transforming' of the book and its ability to keep up with digital culture including the emergence if new modes of making, reading and disseminating book works.