The Thingness of Books, the Bookishness of Things

If things are matter already configured then to a large extent I am more of a thing then my computational books. But is a thing the same..thing.. as an object? We are now making a Phi Film of the Phi Books which is not much of an object but is something - a performed book, not a vessel like a normal book (though I do not lreally ike to reduce books or computer programs to vessels). Most people would probably accept that one aspect of books is that they are things, one off artists' books are described by some people as art objects, differentiated from other types of books that are produced in multiple editions. Remediating the Phi Books into a computational film that is embeddded with a performance and receptive to specific situations is arguably only complicating things...