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OK, so the first #cartobooks I am reviewing is "Österreich – Raum und Gesellschaft" (2019) by M. Seger and Thomas Hafner (cartographer, not credited as author). The book's claim is to give a comprehensive overview of Austria from a geographic perspective on 648 pages. #mapsathome 
The book has potential to show a new way in digitally produced cartography: it doesn't even try to replicate the bespoke details and composition of analogue cartography, but leverages the advantages of digital production and GIS: sheer volume and density of (curated) information.
The maps in the book are uniformly rendered as bitmaps at a resolution of ≈380 DPI, and printed with crisp square "pixel" boundaries. This gives the maps a distinctly "digital" look, letting the characteristics of the production process shine through to the surface.
