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A physical book is a real object, anchored. If you read a particular edition, you remember not only the contents but the object itself: its cover, typography, smell, even where a passage sat on the page.
Books organize themselves in memory by place --the ancient method of loci.
Digital text does not exist.
The greatest harbinger of end times is not plague or war, but the sudden enormous proliferation of Xerox-quality POD editions (unmarked! no warning!) from houses like Penguin.
Christopher Nolan asked the Oracle of Delphi, "Will audiences love my adaptation of the Odyssey?"
And the Pythia replied, "They will discuss it non-stop for months before it even premieres."
And away he went, glad in this heart, poor fool.
@AntigoneJournal Hoping for this set, despite Guthrie’s “deference and good manners” failing him “in a task which requires more boldness, even recklessness” when we get to volume 4 (J.M. Rist, 10.2307/1087338)
It was an honour to have a 1D map from my collection feature in an @underware talk last year at @ATypI Copenhagen. The video of the talk has just been published.
https://t.co/oa1pFsMEvs
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.
Media giants are now threatening to do this.
We can't let this happen.
Pass it on.
清明上河图 (Along the River During the Qingming Festival, 12th century), the painted scroll sometimes called China’s Mona Lisa, has been brought to life digitally before, but AI is taking it to another level 👏
@mike_matas I assume the ease transitions are shown here in 0.1x slo-mo. Otherwise any racing driver or fighter pilot (or even gamer) would be aghast at such meaningless, ornamental and disrespectful delays in a HMI.
@GuyInFlight@LUDENClassics I remember it differently, that the pesky engineers had intentionally taken design decisions that made a V installation hard because they feared management demanding it take the Rover V8.
‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.’
Tom Stoppard 1937 - 2025
@alex_usyd I very much enjoyed @EdwardWilsonLee’s book on Pico, published earlier this year. There’s a good review of it (and Copenhaver’s new translation of the 900 theses) in the LRB https://t.co/B1iOAHZ0d5