The magic of buying a book

A post from one of my friends on facebook:

Yesss, eindelijk heb ik het boek 'Het leven is fanspastisch' van Robin Corbee gevonden! (Ik had m ook kunnen bestellen via Bol.com, wat ik verder iedereen aanraad, maar ik heb net zo lang gewacht tot ik 'm toevallig in een boekwinkel tegen zou komen. Want dat is voor mij de magie van het kopen van een boek.) Vandaag bij Stumpel in Heemskerk was het dan zo ver. En nu ga ik 'm lekker helemaal in 1 ruk uitlezen.

Translation:
'Yesss, I've finally found the book 'Life is fantastic', written by Robin Corbee! (I've also could've order it online via Bol.com (sort of Amazon), which I recommend everyone non the less, but I've just waited until I would acidentally find it somewhere in a bookstore. Because that to me is the magic of buying a book.) Today at Stumpel in Heemskerk I've finally found it. And now I'm just going to read it in one time, from beginning till end.


It's very clear that people still value the ritual of physically buying an analogue book and reading it. They put a certain value in collecting a certain book the old fashioned way. I think this is a very important element of experiencing a book;
collecting,
finding it in a store
tangebility

How could we enrich an interactive book with these elements?

Ofcourse kids don't often go shopping on their own, they always do this with their (or one of their) parents. But kids can really crave for something to buy, which will always be an object, like a toy. They could crave to collect something, and they love to go with their parents to a toystore.
It would be nice if you could collect, for instance, puppets of the characters of the interactive book. They could buy it in a toystore. Unwrap it at home and take a picture of it with the Ipad. The puppet gets digital and gets involved in the story. But the kids could also play with it in reality.

Another nice idea would be that kids could photograph any object with the Ipad and the pictures could play a role in the story. They could collect object they find inspiring and show them to their friends with the app.