Elaine Treharne: Why physical books will always be with us
The Future of Everything
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How to Condense a Huge Book Into 100 Tweets
Welsh medievalist discusses how to condense Beowulf into 100 tweets. He says the old English mode of poetry is illiterative, so he started using IAMBic pentameter instead. What we learn from these manuscripts can be as functional as learning about how books were designed and produced.
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