tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11020751.post6306038973143555911..comments2023-10-08T11:10:46.457-04:00Comments on Countersignature: Archival quality.cshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14117846384130187926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11020751.post-84613580114172890012008-10-23T10:18:00.000-04:002008-10-23T10:18:00.000-04:00I am not familiar with Double Fold, but it sounds ...I am not familiar with <I>Double Fold</I>, but it sounds really interesting. Our growing electronic archives are great for distributing data and with digitized data (as opposed to microfilm etc) you don't worry about deterioration of the copy, but certainly something is lost when you can't get the old copies of the papers and journals and books and feel the heft, the way it would be consumed in its original form...cshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14117846384130187926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11020751.post-15839984260818753062008-10-22T13:41:00.000-04:002008-10-22T13:41:00.000-04:00These are important -- and depressing -- questions...These are important -- and depressing -- questions.<BR/><BR/>My wife told me a story that she'd once read in Dear Abby, some advice column anyway. The question had come from a grieving widow, whose late husband's employer had made his email available to her. (Or maybe she'd just gone into his office and turned his PC on.) She'd had no idea at all about the affair he'd been carrying on, but it was all there in ugly pixels.<BR/><BR/>The stuff of nightmare.<BR/><BR/>Are you familiar with Nicholson Baker's <I>Double Fold</I>? It's focused on the preservation of archives, not personal correspondence, but there's a lot of overlap I would think. (Librarians tend not to be fans of the book, for understandable reasons.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com