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Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age by David M. Levy
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Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

by David M. Levy

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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.
karenmerguerian | Aug 7, 2008 |  
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.

Good material on publishing industry providing a vettin ( )
jaygheiser | Jul 23, 2008 |  
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Why should i wish to see God better than this day?
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God,
and in my own face in the glass,
I find letter from God dropt in the street,
and every one is sign'd by God's name,
And I leave them wheresoe'er I go,
Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
as reproduced in the Peter Pauper edition of Leaves of Grass
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For Zari
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Toward the beginning of of Woody Allen's 1977 movie Anni Hall, little Woody (called Alvy in the movie) is sitting in the doctor's office with his mother.
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