{"id":3091,"date":"2022-12-12T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2022-12-12T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:01:01","slug":"link-the-printed-book-as-a-preservation-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2022\/12\/link-the-printed-book-as-a-preservation-device","title":{"rendered":"Link: the printed book as a preservation device"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 2008 article about digital deterioration of e-books has, in a fit of irony, become unfindable through Google. The reason may be that no-one links to it any more, including the platform on which it was published.<\/p>\n

So let me link to it myself: <\/p>\n

The printed book as a preservation device<\/a><\/p>\n

In the article I discuss three dangers that beset digital works: <\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Format deterioration<\/li>\n
  2. Digital Rights Management (DRM)<\/li>\n
  3. An adversive position of archivists<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I offer no achievable solutions to these problems, but point out that, ironically, because of these dangers a print version of a book offers a greater chance of said book surviving the ages than the digital version does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My 2008 article about digital deterioration of e-books has, in a fit of irony, become unfindable through Google. The reason may be that no-one links to it any more, including the platform on which it was published. So let me link to it myself: The printed book as a preservation device In the article I … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}