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“One major consequence of the shift to digital is the addition of graphical, audio, and video elements to the written word. More profound, however, is the book’s reinvention in a networked environment. Unlike the printed book, the networked book is not bound by time or space. It is an evolving entity within an ecology of readers, authors and texts. Unlike the printed book, the networked book is never finished: it is always a work in progress.”
IfotB
One question is how many defining charateristics of a shoe horn can be discarded. It may also be relevant that a shoe horn isn’t everything.
magicians of the codex 2
With a book, it is initially a paradox that we convey conceptual works via physical objects. But that paradox pales in context of another; that there is little correlation between the activities of making that object and the concepts conveyed.
“Harry Potter has much to tell us about the ways in which the arcana of intellectual property and industry-specific security and logistical
concerns have come to infiltrate broader practices of everyday life. The UI
Communications Studies Department and
UICB partner to bring Professor Ted Striphas to share his award-winning research.”
magicians of the codex
“Origen’s Hexapla made innovative use of parallel columns to enable students of the Old Testament to move from version to version. Immense in size, fabulously expensive to produce, the multiple volumes of this great compilation were the most celebrated single possession of what, in Eusebius’s time, became the great Christian library at Caesarea. Origin’s Bible, laid out in columns, seems the most obvious prototype for Eusebius’s effort to lay out time in the same way.”
Origen at the turn of the third century and Eusebius at the turn of the forth, in monumental scholarly acts, invented the codex as a gymnastic reference tool. Learn the epic story in graceful, clear and electrifying detail in Grafton and Williams
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book.
Baghdad librarians
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exemplars do the best they can without hesitation. No sick days. If they can save the books they will save their culture . They work alone and abandoned and terrorized. No sick days.