Along with texture, the hole may be digital-proof. I seek to examine here some perforated books, without writing a history or defining a typology, but so as to show how this specificity molds and reveals the medium. The hole can be an accident but it can also transgress: picture books play with this ambivalence. The hole is undoubtedly linked to the "biblioclasts" analyzed by Jean-François Lyotard in the 1960s and 1970s, but rather than aiming for a conceptual grasp, these artists articulate desire with the very body of the book. Aren't all printed books situated at the very limit where the hole dwells? The fact that the page has not been punctured is due to the printer\'s control. As such, the hole in the paper book is perhaps consubstantial with modern fiction, indexed to the invention of printing, and based on its ability to preserve these Leerstellen in the text.