To browse Academia. There is a saying among scholar-librarians that goes something like this: all manuscripts are copies, and all printed books are unique. Today, such truths may not be selfevident. Manuscripts seem to promise greater research value because of their apparent uniqueness, and they continue to command high sale prices in the marketplace, even while the cost of many antiquarian books continues to fall.
Curators of special collections, meanwhile, are increasingly asked to justify purchases of printed materials that may seem unnecessary, redundant, or even burdensome when electronic surrogates are readily available via digital libraries such as Google Books. Some commentators treat the discarding of physical books as a fait accompli: "What are we going to do with all that space that was once devoted to storage in the form of stacks? Written as a companion to his Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, , Old Books, New Technologies explores what McKitterick calls the "myth of the uniformity of print" We learn about the vexed historical role that printed books play as unique, physical artifacts that, more frequently than not, are presented as identical copies.
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