"The Internet has created both possibilities and problems. There is now much more archival material online and an astonishing array of digital books. In my generation, part of oneâs training was in how to locate material in obscure archives. That now seems a bit comical, given the easy access one can have to troves and troves of material. These developments do however mean that the materiality of the objects is often obscured. One canât see the actual document so some of the key methods of book history canât be deployed."
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