The inventor of the book was probably a Christian because all the earliest codexes contain Christian writings. Too poor to buy large pieces of papyrus or leather scrolls, they joined together lots of small scraps of papyrus to create a 'codex’ and wrote on both sides to maximise space.
Will our generation see the demise of the book? This has been predicted as often as the ‘paperless office’. It may happen soon – but not yet. Microsoft has dropped out of the electronic library business while Google has recently had a surprise success (see below). >>>
На блоге также дается список некоторых online-библиотек, где можно найти книги, срок копирайта которых уже истек:
- Project Guttenberg – 25,000 books.
- About 400 other sources – usefully categorized by subjects
- OAIster academic catalogue – 56% of these aren’t found in Google searches
- University of Pennsylvania web catalogue - 30,000 books but almost no Theology!
- Internet Archive - collecting everything elsewhere, and more. More than a 1M texts!
Эта тема дала старт интересному обсуждению на форуме Tyndale House…
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