The invisible work of reading

Joan Bakewell wonders where wisdom will come from if the public loses access to libraries and to free reading. Oddly, the availability of this BBC podcast is limited to the next seven days.

In some places, sources are being nicely cared for

If the community of scholars would lend its skills to editing and translating enterprises such as IntraText - it's incredibly rich - click on, for example, Cicero, or his Renaissance buddy, Alberti, and you'll find original texts with concordances -- well, there would be enormous amounts of original source material for all to share.



Kinda makes JSTOR look like...






update: another collection, French this time.