Dean,
I love the the story.  I wonder if it could be made into a commercial?
Rayanne
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Rayanne Waggoner, CRM
Records Manager
Apple Inc.
408-974-1503


> From: Dean DeBolt <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:10:10 -0500
> To: Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [RM] OT: Friday Funny Sharing
> 
> Earlier this week I was asked to bring our copy (single leaf) of the 1460
> Catholicon (third book printed on Gutenberg's press) to show-and-tell at our
> Middle Ages history class.    Normally my short presentation centers on the
> impact of Gutenburg, movable type, the ink studies showing it is not
> Gutenberg's ink configuration though it is his typeface/press, etc.
> 
> Instead I began my presentation that on Saturday, Apple Computers had sold
> 300,000 IPADS (at this point the professor, told me later, I'd lost her!).
> I followed up with asking why the IPAD is in the shape it is.   Why is the
> Kindle?
> Then I showed the leaf and talked about how its size is known as folio, that
> Gutenberg had to make/acquire his own "paper," that is was from cloth, the
> width mirroring the size of most scrolls which were on foot-long rods, and
> perhaps determined by the "baking ovens" or trays to dry paper on.   I had
> some blank sheets with me and I folded them and showed how you could print
> eight pages, fold them into a signature that becomes the basis for the book,
> the book size, and the Kindle.   I then mentioned the introduction of wood
> pulp as a paper medium and how it was discovered that it could be
> manipulated into various kinds of paper, including soft, fluffy stock and I
> took a small toilet paper roll from my pocket.
> 
> Oh, I also did mention within the talk, Gutenberg, the ink, impact, etc.
> But I had the satisfaction of knowing that for the rest of the day, these 70
> students would not be able to ... uh ... use the facilities without thinking
> about Gutenberg, paper, Kindles, and IPADS!
> 
> Some days are REALLY good days!   :D
> 
> Dean
> 
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> Special Collections
> University of West Florida Library
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