interleaves dot org
Robert Teeter’s
Interleaves has kindly linked to FotB dot com.
advent of the eReader
Let’s not call it an eBook, let’s call it an eReader. No need for reference to the book prototype, no need for the page turning motif. Maximize the device for the kind of reading associated with blogs, with emailing and thumb texting. Maximize it for images, audio and video. The eReader is for those navigating the composite, screen based reading mode.
The eBOOK revolution is so over.
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books on books on screen
Oak Knoll has a complete
reference library at their website. These new imaged books are old classics.
great cycles of veneration and neglect
The survival of the works of Aristotle from the 4th century B.C.E. is a necessary aspect of the immense revolutions that they produced. For fans of the persistence of texts and the consequences of that persistence, this is an awesome story. Which will define the other; reason or faith? For a short time in the dynamic western Middle Ages the two domains were in perfect disharmony.
No better path through the story and its contending polymaths than
Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages by Richard Rubenstein.
