Digital data are more fragile than printed material.
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involv… - Robert Darnton
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involv…
- Robert Darnton
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. - Robert Darnton
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. - Robert Darnton
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. - Robert Darnton
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and … - Robert Darnton
The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and …
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian. - Robert Darnton
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
Digital data are more fragile than printed material. - Robert Darnton
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google woul… - Robert Darnton
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google woul…
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was … - Robert Darnton
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was …
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