Angels & Books
(A guest blog by Erika Boeckeler, Northeastern University) “An angel..vnderstondyth and knowyth sodaynly wythout collacion of one thynge to a nother.” -Bartholomew de Glanville, De Proprietatibus Rerum...
View ArticleQuestions about Future Books
Today the “Unbound” symposium begins! As part of the registration process, we asked participants: “What questions do you have about the future of the book?” The responses follow ~ please add your...
View ArticleHaptics, Lovely Objects, Archives, and e-readers
On Friday during the first panel, and particularly during its Q&A, there was a great deal of concern about the loss of haptic experience when we read electronically, the ways that archival research...
View ArticleA Brief Snapshot of eBooks, Videotext, and Future Shock
a guest post by Linda VandeVrede Ebooks have come a long way in the last three decades. In 1983-84, when I was researching my master’s thesis at Boston University, ebooks were only just emerging and...
View ArticleSymposium Wrap-Up
KICK-OFF READING by Christian Bök Co-Sponsored with Purple Blurb We started the event with a kick-off reading, co-sponsored with Purple Blurb, featuring experimental poet Christian Bök, who...
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