{"id":1337,"date":"2011-09-23T11:24:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2011-09-23T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:25:10","slug":"from-scroll-to-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/23\/from-scroll-to-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"From Scroll to Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">From scrolls, to the codex, to e-books, like the Amazon Kindle, the format of the book is changing in our new technological age.\u00a0 A recent<em> New York Times<\/em> article describes this ever-changing phenomenon and what we should expect to sacrifice in giving up the good-ole paperback.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>In the classical world, the scroll was the book format of choice and  the state of the art in information technology. Essentially it was a  long, rolled-up piece of paper or parchment. To read a scroll you  gradually unrolled it, exposing a bit of the text at a time; when you  were done you had to roll it back up the right way, not unlike that  other obsolete medium, the VHS tape.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Check it out:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/04\/books\/review\/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1316788838-TgmuzUkHMc4yIq7kuKnDyA\"> http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/04\/books\/review\/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1316788838-TgmuzUkHMc4yIq7kuKnDyA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From scrolls, to the codex, to e-books, like the Amazon Kindle, the format of the book is changing in our new technological age.\u00a0 A recent New York Times article describes this ever-changing phenomenon and what we should expect to sacrifice in giving up the good-ole paperback. In the classical world, the scroll was the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4124,3715,1],"tags":[428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}