interplay of print and screen
…This change seems symptomatic of the uncertainties besetting the publication of electronic texts at present and encourages us in the view that the future of the scholarly edition may lie in a combination of stable printed volumes embodying carefully weighted value judgements and an electronic archive that provides both the evidence for those judgements and the opportunity to challenge them. p.136
This is a defining work; Text Editing, Print and the Digital World, providing an exposition of the future interplay of print and screen in scholarly publication.
drive-by typography
Visit this wonderful blog and see the video of calligraphic driving.
vaporizer
Will Google vaporize libraries? Not if they hold onto their books. With the books acting as back-up, masters, and authenticators of all their delivery surrogates, the physical books will actually vaporize Google.
Yes, books can be scanned twice. The books can be scanned three times or more. But even more significantly, the un-scanned books can be scanned. Scanning is just another kind of reading. This is a live linkage persisting and evolving across the paper and screen divide. The libraries still have the originals. Unless, of course an even more conniving Google-like settlement or gratuitous digital depository linkage motivates disposal of physical collections.
Oh, and check this out….Brewster Kahle on the Google settlement. Libraries need to recall the experience of microfilming. That era is fifty years duration and we are still redoing the capture.