re-readers
Sophie based communal readings have a side bar. The participants are able to select print copies as their primary source. Especially suggestive was a re-reading thirty seven years later that motivated the deliberate Sophie review. Will the Sophie exchange summersault that far forward?
"One last note: This is not essentially an experiment in online reading itself. Although the online version of the text is quite readable, for now, we believe books made of paper still have a substantial advantage over the screen for sustained reading of a linear narrative. So you may also want to suggest to your readers that they order copies of the book now. Whichever edition of the book someone reads (US, UK or online), there is a navigation bar at the top of the online page will help locate them within the conversation." from
Teleread
ostracon
"An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he says is the earliest-known Hebrew text, found on a shard of pottery that dates to the time of King David from the Old Testament, about 3,000 years ago."
(don't try this with electronic media)
panoply
Skills of text encoding and pictorial encoding were extracted from skills of engagement of natural ecologies and transmitted to environments of synthetic technologies. A long practice of projectile defense and deliberate throwing conveyed ultimately to projectiles of text thrown across time and cultures and a long and attentive watching of the natural world conveyed to pictorial representation and ultimately to watching photographs and screens.The text skills derived from kinetics of projectiles and the pictorial skills from attentive watching, both engendering purely conceptual skills.
This little diorama is exemplified by the captioned image. The caption has text meaning and the image has visual meaning, but the real charm of the transmission of caption and image is their potent interaction; the caption says something visual and the picture says something textual. We have noticed this new meaning and clever panoply reading, but what does it mean?
At least this panoply suggests that the meanings of throwing and watching are intermingled in behaviors of reading and there is a possibly that skills of their synthesis is also so deep that it transcends technologies and partitions of textual and pictorial representation and of print and screen. The book, in its invention, evolution and modes of transmission is a great achievement of this synthesis of text and image and a great exemplar of the legacy of skills of reading. And so is the library.
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