It is an interesting topic.
Photo books today are less "reproduction" than an "equivalent" medium. Transferring this to sound, for example, a CD is "equivalent" to a digital download in sound methodology. Whereas cassettes are more analogous to silver emulsion prints in photography.
There is a quality, texture and subtle expression in silver emulsion print photography which rarely, if ever, transfers to the modern digital print medium in person. A photo book is, then, in essence an exact medium to the original digital print. It only differs, in some cases, in gloss, physical size and context of presentation. But the book is an equal in communication due to layout, sequence, and graphic design to the originals.
The correlation breaks down, though, in music due to so few releases truly using magnetic tape as a *final product* in 2022 rather than just another--often inferior and ill-equipped--duplication medium. Much as film grain, processing thereof, printing paper quality, texture and tonality, the cassette can be a purposely produced and utilized physical medium. I rarely see it. Much as with print photography today.
