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<div class="card"><DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT><div class="mw-parser-output"><h1><span id="digitising/printing"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="digitising.2Fprinting">digitising/printing</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=User:Simon/Digitising_Printing&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: digitising/printing">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1>
<p>see also <a href="Understanding_texts.html" title="User:Simon/Understanding texts">understanding texts</a>, <a href="Reprinting.html" title="User:Simon/Reprinting">reprinting</a>, <a href="Republishing.html" title="User:Simon/Republishing">republishing</a>
</p><p>Most people I know prefer to read off paper. The arguments for the printed text usually are about exhaustion, e.g. “I get tired reading from a screen”, lack of retention, e.g. “Its proven that people remember things they read on paper better than on screen”, and in the circles I tend to run in, a sentimentality pervades, nostalgic for the haptic experience that reading from printed books brings.
</p><p>We expect acceleration from digital technologies. The cultural significance of new media is bolstered through remediality, which is its refashioning through the lens of old media<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>. Skeuomorphic design brings us the texture of paper on a screen. Hayles argues for intermediality, the interpretations between, and the coexistence of all media, including printed and digital texts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>
</p><p>Digital text is fraught with trauma, underpinned by the possibility of fragmentation. Text that is to the reader fully searchable and copy-pasteable is also text that threatens to come apart. Text that is less of an object, and more a process, often not residing in any one place in a computer file system, assembled dynamically, “on-the-fly”. Printed text, by contrast, reassures us by way of its indelibility.
</p><p>Image: The physical bootleg library contained in a disused champagne crate, and the digital bootleg library running from a Raspberry Pi computer
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1"></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bolter, J.D. and Grusin, R. (2003) <i>Remediation: understanding new media</i>. 6. Nachdr. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2"></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hayles, N.K. (2005) <i>My mother was a computer: digital subjects and literary texts</i>. Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press.</span>
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