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preserving documents

Real books should be preserved like papyrus scrolls

December 28, 2019February 2, 2014 by Editorial Team

In a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word. Books have a new place as sacred objects, and libraries as museums

Categories Art Tags Amazon, Article, Big Brother, Book, Books, books future, books on Kindle, burn books, Comment, Culture, e-readers, e-text, Ebooks, ebooks future, electronic reader, electronic versions journals, electronic versions magazines, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg, future electronic books, future electronic world, gadgets, handwritten manuscript, heritage, ink, Jeanette Winterson, Jeff Bezos, John Milton, John Naughton, Kindle, libraries, paper, papyrus, papyrus scrolls, preserving documents, printed book, printed books future, Rick Gekoski, Rick Gekoski: Finger on the page, Technology, the future of the book, the impulse to read

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