A highly accessible overview of the changing meaning of texts. The author engages in a wide-ranging discussion of cash register receipts, printed books, postcards, digital documents, and business technology in an attempt to create a framework for understanding how to read, enjoy, profit from, and preserve written knowledge when that knowledge is increasingly manifested solely in bits and bytes. He brings to the discussion his background as computer scientist, calligrapher, and reader, and since he's not a librarian, there's no library-jargon. He has an abiding concern with libraries, however, and with their mission and future. A bonus for me: he includes an interesting discussion of a book about digital libraries by my former professor, Fran Miksa.

Not an especially deep book, but it had its moments. His concept of 'Documentation' is essentially what I've been trying to capture in my book on 'Information', being that stuff that is captured.

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