Codex in Crisis
By Anthony Grafton
Non-Fiction
Building on his essay for the New Yorker magazine, Princeton professor Anthony Grafton sets the digitization of books into a sweeping historical context and explores the implications of new media for the ways we read, write, and store information. A second edition, revised by the author and hand-bound in New York.
From the text:
For the last ten years... the cities of the book have been anything but quiet. The computer and the Internet have transformed reading more dramatically than anything since the printing press. In great libraries from Stanford to Oxford, pages turn, scanners hum, data bases grow, and the world of books, of copyrighted information and repositories of individual copies, trembles.
Reader comments:
[I]t is a bracing piece and I recommend it to anyone.
- Hua Hsu, The Atlantic
Given free rein, Grafton is able to go into more detail about [...] the ineffable something that is added to scholarship when a researcher shares a physical workspace with sleepy vicars who visit the Bodleian in their bedroom slippers.
- Caleb Crain, Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
I am now the proud owner of number 167 of the hound-bound limited second edition of Anthony Grafton's little booklet called Codex in Crisis... And [it is] beautiful.
- Janneke Adema, Open Reflections
In this form [Codex in Crisis] is a precious, bibliophile statement for craftsmanship, and for a cultural and scientific medium which, like the library itself, is much more than a collection of search terms.
- Dan Stoffelsen, NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (translated from the Dutch by A. Bick)
You're right - Codex in Crisis is a hot commodity!
- Sorayya Carr, University Press Books, Berkeley, CA
Publication info:
Second Edition
Date: October 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-9796969-4-7
Binding: Hand-sewn and perfect-bound
Papers: Neenah Classic Laid, Frazier Pegasus, Mohawk Superfine
Size: 6.25" x 8"
Pages: 64
By Anthony Grafton
Non-Fiction
| Price: $25.00 |
Building on his essay for the New Yorker magazine, Princeton professor Anthony Grafton sets the digitization of books into a sweeping historical context and explores the implications of new media for the ways we read, write, and store information. A second edition, revised by the author and hand-bound in New York.
From the text:
For the last ten years... the cities of the book have been anything but quiet. The computer and the Internet have transformed reading more dramatically than anything since the printing press. In great libraries from Stanford to Oxford, pages turn, scanners hum, data bases grow, and the world of books, of copyrighted information and repositories of individual copies, trembles.
Reader comments:
[I]t is a bracing piece and I recommend it to anyone.
- Hua Hsu, The Atlantic
Given free rein, Grafton is able to go into more detail about [...] the ineffable something that is added to scholarship when a researcher shares a physical workspace with sleepy vicars who visit the Bodleian in their bedroom slippers.
- Caleb Crain, Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
I am now the proud owner of number 167 of the hound-bound limited second edition of Anthony Grafton's little booklet called Codex in Crisis... And [it is] beautiful.
- Janneke Adema, Open Reflections
In this form [Codex in Crisis] is a precious, bibliophile statement for craftsmanship, and for a cultural and scientific medium which, like the library itself, is much more than a collection of search terms.
- Dan Stoffelsen, NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (translated from the Dutch by A. Bick)
You're right - Codex in Crisis is a hot commodity!
- Sorayya Carr, University Press Books, Berkeley, CA
Publication info:
Second Edition
Date: October 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-9796969-4-7
Binding: Hand-sewn and perfect-bound
Papers: Neenah Classic Laid, Frazier Pegasus, Mohawk Superfine
Size: 6.25" x 8"
Pages: 64