What is gained and lost in adapting an award-winning multimodal novel to the design requirements of Apple's mobile operating system? This essay makes the case for "device-specific reading" practices by taking the rare opportunity to examine a canonical work of electronic literature where the identical content has been ported from desktop to iPad. Specifically the essay examines the device-specific aesthetic shift from click to touch-based reader interaction, and the medial context of decay: the enormous challenge to perpetual access posed by operating system obsolescence and Apple App Store purges.