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Put down your Kindle and watch this

December 1, 2009

Letterpress printing is the craft invented by Gutenberg five hundred years ago: printing one page at a time using moveable type that is literally pressed into the paper. It is still practiced, apparently, by the Firefly Press of Somerville, Mass. Obviously the switch to digital books has everything to do with efficiency and nothing to do with beauty. Still, it is worth pausing to think about what we lose in the move from pages to pixels.

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  1. King Rat says

    December 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    I’m still mourning what we lost when we moved away from scrolls.

    • William Landay says

      December 1, 2009 at 8:52 pm

      Good man. At least you’ve let go of the cave paintings.

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