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Originally Posted by Quoth
Codex means book. Books are essentially like the old tablets, but on papyrus, paper (rag, wood or a mix) or animal skin. Books are over 2000 years old. Compared with scrolls they offer random access, quicker access, easier to read, and twice the capacity per media. I never understood why CRTs and 30 years later Web "pages" were not mostly page orientated and copied the scrolling behaviour of the printing terminal, based on the 1928 teletype invention. For 30 years the continuous paper was used on computer printers rather than cut sheets. Cut sheets and even duplex printing was starting to be be popular about the time Websites were added to the Internet (about 1992) and also page orientated desktop publishing was affordable from the late 1980s.
Web sites and browsers should work like ebooks. After all, they are CSS and HTML with resources such as images, index and fonts.
Perhaps over 10,000 not read in the modern era that are in museums.
Much papyrus was used to light fires. Paper writing deliberately burnt in ancient China. The animal skins later used in Europe kept well. Paper didn't.
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Definition of Manuscript:a book, document, or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed. That was the context in which I referred to manuscripts. Many old books that were hand copied onto parchment are often referred to as manuscripts. Now days of course it's most often used to describe an unpublished work. Or so it seems. The web and ebooks have allowed more people to have access to printed material than ever before. I certainly can't see that as bad. And sometimes (though not always) the ebook version is far cheaper in price as well as being easier to secure a copy of.
