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Once upon a time we thought we had an agreed upon world of words. A belief that thinking could be captured in print, carried in a hand, bound & covered, shared.
That ways of perceiving were held within those covers,those shelves of books where, at a glance, an other might tell what sort of human you were.
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"Most books in the ancient world…took the form of scrolls…but by the fourth century Christians had almost completely opted for a different format, the codex, from which our familiar books derive...
The codex has the huge advantage of being far easier for readers to find their way about in: the text can be conveniently paginated and indexed, and the pages can be turned quickly to the desired place...
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...Not until the invention of the computer with its superior search functions, could a serious challenge be mounted to the codex’s magnificently simple and flexible format. Only now have we begun once again to speak of “scrolling” through a text.”