decoy
I agree that Amazon has deliberately disguised Kindle as a book reader. The actual agenda is elsewhere as a connected fulfillment device. Here are three reasons: With Kindle as a book reader it projects Amazon as a Library without any of the educational mission or cultural commitment. It positions technical evolution of the hand-held reader in the challenging domain of book simulation just as the photocopier industry discovered. It disguises outright marketing to educated customers and keeps within the politically correct confines of literacy advocation. (Teleread,
long play)
authentication stamp
Screen simulations of print books need an authentication stamp. This would be a mark or logo much like the infinity sign that verifies alkaline paper in print editions. The authentication stamp would indicate that the screen simulation has been collated along side a known print copy. More importantly it would also signify that the screen simulation can be collated again along side the same print copy which has been preserved as a leaf master in a research library.
Preservation Masters
brts/sdpa
“Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation”, Interim Report, Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital preservation and Access, December, 2008.
http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Interim_Report.pdf
Perhaps it is significant that the library preservation field is considered “young”. The field emerged with the advent of deteriorating paper and the practice has become diversified and credible, as media have proven evermore transient.
Another indication that library preservation is correlated with the advent of transient media, is the lack of its correlation with permanent media. There really is no intervention needed to physically preserve a Gutenberg Bible; it preserves itself.
Such a continuum suggests another. Is it consequential that digital preservation practice must be invented AFTER the advent digital media and after our widespread academic and social dependence on it as a transmission mode? The inherent self-preservation attributes of the earliest printing and media materials were inherent BEFORE our wider dependence on them.
Hidden within this situation is the suggestion that preservation actions are increasingly relevant as our transmission media are more transient. But the challenges only increase and we may yet need to rediscover the efficacy of persistence and sustainability as a precursor of library access.
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