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From: sac@well.UUCP (Steve Cisler)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: The Aesthetics of Computers
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Date: 29 Jan 88 07:37:54 GMT
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As a librarian and some time user of old platen presses, I, too, have 
a love of books as objects (except when I have to move a collection 
of 32,000 volumes) and appreciate the typefaces, the paper, the way 
the book feels.

As a computer user I compose my own newsletter on screen and find it 
difficult to write anything in longhand or on a typewriter.  However, 
I do proofread paper copy much more easily than on a screen.

As screen displays improve I think that hypertext journals and 
collaborative works will become more common, but for many traditional 
reasons they won't replace scholarly or popular serials.  I think Bix 
and Byte magazine are interesting examples of the two forms complementing 
each other, but I can't see Byte fading away because of Bix.

Steve Cisler