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preservation and persistence of the changing book
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***global view hand crafts- home
On an eight day bicycle trip we suddenly turned off onto a non-descript gravel road for no reason...but found the home of world hand crafts. The circumstance of hand crafts in world is dire as the traditional cultures are hollowed out by economic desperation and social collapse. - Global View
We spent the morning at Global View and bicycled away with flowing textiles, yak wool sashes, Nepalese paper and charmed palm leaf books; exemplars of wealthy cultures of poor people rather than the refuse of poor cultures of rich people.
Quality, skill and compassion is a better choice than junk.
***robot book
E-books can be considered as a robotic device for reading. The difficulty is that eye reading cannot be automated. Since the reader is mobile, wireless connectivity is needed. Since the impulse and occasion to read is connected with behavior there is a need for content-on-demand and place based learning. A cultural tourism, augmented by on-line library access could provide more than niche appeal.
