Via Nigel Beale.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, well, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author, most recently, of Original Sin: A Cultural History. He keeps an online commonplace book here.
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We've got one of those here at the University of Missouri. I haven't tried it out or seen it in action, but this video makes me want to more! I wonder what sort of control you have over the margins? It would be cool to be able to make a philosophy or lit. crit. text with extra big margins, so you could go at it Talmud-style. :)
What's the catch? Do the savings on labor costs end up saving the consumer money after the 1000th or so printing or is it just that it provides the book more immediately?