>Dear Julia,
I would certainly be interested in using a paper copy of the Carpenter
collection. In addition, I would suggest that since the digital
technologies are so new, and we do not really know how they will fare in
fifty or a hundred years--how, for example, God forbid, they would survive
a general catastrophe on the level of World War II--while print technology
has proved its usefulness over five centuries, it would be rash at this
juncture not to utilize the tried and true as well as the rich-in potential
and new. Besides, there are still ways to use a book that the computer
can't touch, just as there are ways to use digitized information that a
book can't touch.
For what it's worth, I say go for it.
-- Bill
William Bernard McCarthy
Professor of English
The Pennsylvania State University
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