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As an example, the folio Shakespeare: I remember reading that no two Folios are exactly alike. Peter C. Herman On 5/3/11 8:31 AM, "Martin Mueller" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Matthew Kirschenbaum in his book Mechanisms: new media and the forensic > imagination (MIT 2008) has a very interesting chapter on the hard dive, > called "Extreme inscription: a grammatology of the hard drive." From it > you learn that the same is never quite the same and that even digital > copies live within specified (and compensated for) margins of error. > > I think the answer to a novice should be that from the producer's > perspective different copies are meant to be the same, and the user should > be able to treat them as if they were the same. > > But they are never quite the same. > > On 5/3/11 10:04 AM, "Carol Kaske" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On examining a Gutenberg Bible in the Plantin-Moretus print shop in >> Antwerp, a member of my tour asked me "Who has the original?" I replied, >> "That's the difference between print and a manuscript, there is no >> original, all copies are equal." Was this the right answer to a novice? >> Of course this is an oversimplification, but isn't it basically true? >> Carol