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
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