A few of our favorite articles and books about the convergence of the digital and paper worlds:
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Articles
The Social Life of Paper
Malcolm Gladwell
The New Yorker, March 25, 2002
Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn't happened.Is Print Doomed?
Jeff Jarvis and John Griffin
FastCompany, Issue 101, December 2005
Too many of the ideas trapped on pages end up, at best, in unused archives or, at worst, in recyclers' pulp, when they should be online--searchable, linkable, part of the conversation.Yellowing Paper, Stiffening Glue and the Sudden Demise of a Library
Verlyn Klinkenborg
New York Times, March 3, 2006
The books themselves are not really worth restoring, of course. Their texts may be of permanent value, but the physical objects are not.Scan This Book!
Kevin Kelly
New York Times Magazine, Sunday, May 14, 2006
The real magic will come in the second act, as each word in each book is cross-linked, clustered, cited, extracted, indexed, analyzed, annotated, remixed, reassembled and woven deeper into the culture than ever before. In the new world of books, every bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages. -
Books
Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
David M. Levy
November 2003The Myth of the Paperless Office
Abigail J. Sellen and Richard H. R. Harper
April 2003