What happened to JO?
Also cds are not much good at squashing things flat and keeping flowers
pressed !
Still I admit the clay tablet edition had it's drawbacks-even if fire
resistant
P concerned archivista
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
Sent: 01 September 2010 07:42
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Subject: Re: OED abandons print
Well, the one-volume, Chris. I'd certainly concede that electronic storage
and retrieval devices, as long as they have competent operating software,
are better as mass information reference depositories but that in itself
sounds like a sentence from an operating manual poorly translated from the
Chinese.
On 31 August 2010 11:06, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:18 +0100, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> > None whatsoever, I imagine.
>
> True, but the shorter two volume edition will remain, from what the
> article says.
> --
> have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog
weird
>
> just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
>
> Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
>
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