Saturday, May 11, 2019
Moving Backward
Mary Norris, Greek to Me (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019), page number unknown (from the first chapter):
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A few other trends actually seem to be moving backward in the new millennium. For instance, audiobooks are a return to the oral tradition, and podcasts—talks, interviews, radio series—dispense with the written record completely. The codex—the book with turnable pages sewn between covers—was a great improvement over the scroll, but now, with publication online, we are back to scrolling again, which makes it hard to refer back to things.
