We're Still in Love With Books
By William Pannapacker
I spend a lot of time working with computers now, but much of my life is still defined by the long relationship I've maintained with books.
It's surprising how many academics who identify with the digital humanities also have ties to "the History of the Book," a field that has long been nurtured by seminars in great libraries. On the shelves of such scholars you may find the five magisterial volumes on The History of the Book in America, placed near Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. New media emerge, but they do not immediately replace old media...
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