Blog 6
After watching Trettien’s video, a simplistic definition of digital book history would be “book history done using digital tools and methods” (8:08). I am most …
My Experience With Bookbinding
I don’t think of myself as being particularly creative, nor do I see myself as being adept (or even adequate) at craftwork. That being the …
Materialities Draft
Daniel Hardat Professor Silva English 410 05 March, 2023 Materialities Paper Draft In our modern world, where books are mass produced and relatively inexpensive to …
Form and Content
We seldom think about the relationship between the form/materiality of a book and its content, mainly because we have come to believe that the value …
The Printing Press Revolution
Upon the invention of the printing press, information became much more democratized than it had previously been. Prior to the invention of the press, many …
From Clay to Silicon
The methods that ancient peoples used to preserve information had their drawbacks, but were astoundingly ingenious nonetheless. The idea to record information on clay tablets, …
My Relationship With Books
The relationship that I have with a book depends on the type of book it is, and at times, the purpose of my reading that …
