Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Chapter 4 Summary
Nicholas Carr, in "The Deepening Page," the fourth chapter in his book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, talks about the evolution of writing and books. He starts off by talking about the early creation of writing. Carr begins with the clay tablet and later moving on to the papyrus scrolls, wax tablet and finally the codex. The codex was basically the beginning of books. And from the book, Carr brings up silent reading and the scriptura continua. Back then when the book was first created, everybody had to read out loud and read without the use of spaces. Silent reading and spaces changed the way people read books. As the books grew popular, the letter press was invented by a German goldsmith named Johannes Getenberg. Getenberg's invention has changed the way we make, publish and read books dramatically. Its pretty interesting to me that the evolution started off when some people decided to write by using some natural resources. There would be no writing or books if no one ever tried writing.
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