Centuries ago, when the codex first came out and began to replace scrolls, it took the rabbis years before they permitted Jews to use a codex on the Sabbath. The Torah is still read in 2012 in the synagogue from a scroll.
So too with the Kindle.
And this reminds us of a funny Norwegian video, a call to the medieval monastic codex help desk. With the famous Talmudic objection, "Are you sure I won't lose any text?" from the show "Øystein og jeg" on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) 2001.
Orig. post 2/07.
1 comment:
Best posting of the year, by far. Much appreciated.
(I thought the "help desk" guy should've pointed out the advantage of the book. Ie, you can jump several pages at a time, unlike with a scroll.)
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