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Choice and excellence

Trackless waste

Climbing to tell the story

Reading and interpretation

The writing is on the wall

To start somewhere

Significant times

On the eve

Creative ignorance

Linchpins

Bound in blood and skin

Landmarks

To feel at home

To the things themselves

Learning to read and learning by reading

Exposure and exhaustion

The communication imperative

The submissive reader

Artistically modified products

December is for Decembrio

Latin and coding

110 days later

Sales, fame and readership

Clockwork awe

Silk Roads

More than you can eat

Audiobooks in context

Latecomers

The unauthoritative advice of a medieval reader for the modern age

Mechanical standardisation

Renewable energies

The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath

Left to our own device

Excellence and mediocrity

Open-source text

Canons and classics

Undoings

More is not always more

Virtual and disembodied

The medium is the message

The last word

The codex leap forward

The confessions of a bookmark (final part)

The confessions of a bookmark, part 5

The confessions of a bookmark, part 4

The confessions of a bookmark, part 3

The confessions of a bookmark, part 2

The confessions of a bookmark, part 1

The age of editing

Reproduction and circulation

Dystopian amnesia

Divide and conquer

Speed and writing

A week in the life of a medieval female writer

In praise of the letter S

The imagery of technology

Scarcity and abundance

The Renaissance key to innovation

The freedom to propagate

Publish or perish

The paradox of enclosure

The Grand Unified Theory and the medieval chronicle

Writing got easier

What’s the deal with medieval manuscript fragments?

The convergence of genres

The economics of scribes

The Gutenberg imagination

The miracle of dialogue

The language imperative

To write in order to read

The theory of evolution of old texts

When AI starts putting pen to paper

The book as bunker

Mythologies

Treating your A.I. to a roadtrip

Ancient geometry and modern health

Taking a break to reflect

What is bad language?

Defacing and destroying

Pre-print UX

From homemade to ready-made

Lost (and gained) in translation

Literacy and the cultural turn

Postscripts in the electronic age

Putting the ad in adverts

Selling words

Titles are important

Are we illiterate?

The loss of formulas

Anecdotal

Pseudonymous, apocryphal, authentic, genuine

A picture is worth a thousand words

Reading is an experience, not a process

Erasing traces

Circles and lines

Scribes and the survival of a civilization

The conquest of time

Writing lists

Glamorous grammar

Losing vocabularies

Sounds and words

The eternal return of opposition

An oral dictionary

Get stuck in traffic

Arts of speech and arts of writing

Myth of the cave 2.0

Leaving our bodies behind

The covering letter of a 17th-century font maker

Hermeneutics and hermenautics

Central vs cutting edge

As closed as an open book

Retronyming, retrofitting

The book is an iPad which...

Unprogrammable

Medieval manuscripts were the 'online' before print

Memes, soundbites and florilegia

Learning models are always changing

Being suspicious

Imitation and innovation

We've never been more textual

Are we postliterate?

Reform(ation)s, old and new

Significant transformations

Books and museification

The first 10 are just the first 10

The aurality of audiobooks

To destroy a book

Pulp facts and fictions

How to chew a book

Better 'spiritual' patrons of the internet

To be obsessed

When the image parasitizes the model

Shorten your text

Down the medieval memory lane

Ebooks are faceless

The medieval Lion King

Scrolling down in humility

Our father who art in the glass

The first man to the Moon

Chronicling the Italian wine vintage of 1185

Five 'business' lessons to learn from the first printed editions of Dante's Divine Comedy

When Homer spoke French

Imag(in)ing Dante: an illustrated manuscript of the Divine Comedy (with complete set of drawings)