Elaine Treharne: Why physical books will always be with us
The Future of Everything
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The Importance of Understanding Manuscripts
Elaine Truhan: In our hyper-literate society, we look back on the efforts of earlier peoples and say they couldn't write very well. But when we look back in the medieval period, what we see is exactly as you've just described, nothing is ever accidental or by mistake because so relatively few people could write. That was the future of manuscripts and books with Russ Altman.
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