A fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully written exploration of
the document. Like Henry Petroski's The Pencil, David Levy's
Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document,
and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in
the digital age. We are surrounded daily by documents of all
kinds--letters and credit card receipts, business memos and books,
television images and web pages--yet we rarely stop to reflect on
their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our
written forms as well as our reading and writing habits are being
disturbed and transformed by new technologies and practices. An
expert on information and written forms, and a former researcher
for the document pioneer Xerox, Levy masterfully navigates these
concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement
about many of the new kinds of emerging documents. He demonstrates
how today's technologies, particularly the personal computer and
the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past
inventions--such as paper, the printing press, writing implements,
and typewriters--in shaping how we use documents and the forms
those documents take. Scrolling Forward lets us see the continuity
between the written forms of today and those of the past. Skyhorse
Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a
broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about
World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK
assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American
Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the
old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a
New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are
committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to
authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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