"Immersed in the unstoppable development of e-book, you may wonder recomendásemos reading a study on the history of books in Greece and Rome. However, we do so without the slightest reserve, having enjoyed and learned from reading. While the various firms we are overwhelmed with the performance of electronic models, renewed every day, someone offers us a few hours forget about the Amazon Kindle, iRiver Story, Interead cool-ER, DR 1000S , Sony Reader, and other congeners Papyre to know better the origin, development and performance of the media of writing in that classical world whose shadow, despite everything, we still live. "What does Juan Carlos Iglesias Zoido (Zafra, 1964), Professor of Greek at the University of Extremadura, and author of numerous publications on historiography and rhetoric grecolatinas. Good to know that his cult of humanism does not preclude the use of new technologies. Suffice it to remember that it is co-editor of Talia dixit The first digital magazine of our University. As you may see the funny readers of this study, the author suggests in many passages funny similes to suggest similarities are even iconographic and gestural, between old and modern books. Do not you remember our youth, compared to their PDA, smartphone or tablet, pen in hand, the young Pompeian who meditates in his writing tablet with a stylus sharpened ivory, asks Iglesias Zoido, well aware that different conditioned media both the manner of writing, like reading a text. "
Press and read" The book the classical world, in the weblog of Manuel Pecellin .
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