On the paranoia that I don't want to lose this yet again :) :)
This is an oral presentation so the words are mainly memory joggers and may not make all that sense.
Or it could just be that I'm brain dead. If you find anything seriously worng please let me know.
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Honey, there's nothing attached or linked to here!
I've tried attaching the file a few times now and it just wont attach !!!! It seems to - It all seems to work but the file just wont show up.
It's attached now...17.2mb of it:) Just doing a d/load here!
Ooh, the metal press...my Grandad had one in his garage! How cool to see one again.
I definitely enjoyed it. It's interesting to see how some themes have remained common (piracy) and proliferated across all the new media that have developed, and how other issues have changed or died out. Thanks for sharing that with us... I wish I could be there for the actual presentation!
Great stuff! I would love to go through one of those books in person to see the corrections and whatnot.
I spent a whole day doing that - unfortunately because of the fragile nature of the books I was not allowed to take photographs of the actual cut and pasted (literally) pages or the scratched out and hand pressed in words ..... couldn't find pictures of them either in any of my texts .....
Thanks Claire for the corrections - I can't access my home email this morning - work computer servers are doing something weird - but I found a back door entrance into my work email and I can access Multiply. Hopefully it will all be up and running by the time I get out of my training this morning.
Yer welcome:) I would have done more and corrected all the commas and stuff but left it at the very few icky bits I found :)
I finally got around to read this, Mel! Very interesting. If your people point out that there's Project Gutenberg in that relation then I think they misunderstood the meaning of Project Gutenberg. This project is not about the physical books, but about the content, no matter how this content was originally printed. Your course treated the books in all physical aspects of book making and not for the content of the texts.
Interesting how these things can be misleading. I learned a few things from your text, but of course being a printer's daughter and having grown up between printing machines, hand typographers etc I've known many of these things from early on. My father was a commercial printer and his company rarely printed books and if there were books printed they were bound somewhere else, but the process of printing still was the same for leaflets, letter heads, magazines and other products.
Thanks Mariann,
Of course I only had a 20 minute presentation so I really had to judge what information I could adequately fit in and yet still make it interesting to a broad section of the staff who turned up to listen. I also had to tie it into the aims of the University and justify why I was sent on the course .....
I was told I came over quite well :)
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