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By J.S. Eliot

This is not an accident. The creators are engaged in what media theorist Richard Coyne called “hypertextual archaeology”—digging through the rubble of older media to build a new cathedral. The PDF becomes a ritual space. You do not read it so much as enter it. ancient future pdf

Others point out that the PDF format, for all its permanence, is inaccessible. It assumes a reader with a printer, a laptop, and hours of silent contemplation. It is a luxury good for the attention-rich. for all its permanence