diversifying through use

diversifying through use

Simon Browne

The first law of S. R. R. Rangathan’s “5 Laws of Library Science”, 1931

see also bootlegging, being kind to the reader, multiplying form, republishing

Publications acquire difference through reproduction; sometimes intentionally, always circumstantially. A printed book always ends up in the hands of at least one reader. It is transported, pages are dog-eared and annotated, time weathers the paper and cracks the spine. Multiply this by many readers, and each printed copy starts to accumulate its own traces, losing resemblance to the rest of the edition and acquiring its own particular countenance and provenance through use.


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