'Our assumption is that people are doing this for the charm of having the whole thing right there, rather than for convenience.

At 1.29pt, Weinersmith says, you can make out names like Bernardo and Hamlet with the naked eye and read the whole thing with a 10x magnifying glass. Ironically, the same digital tech that made the Hamlet Bookmark possible is changing our conception of books again, as we watch texts become transmogrified into variably formatted e-books and scrolling webpages.įor you font junkies, the duo used 1.29pt Hoefler Text. With the Hamlet Bookmark, a scroll is relegated to being asked to mark your place in the codex. HAMLET by William Shakespeare - FULL AudioBook Greatest Audio Books - 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' Give the gift of audiobooks Click h. The first books were scrolls (a tradition carried on today in sacred texts like the Torah) in time, the codex supplanted the scroll to the point that most people think of books as being synonymous with bound pages. Photo: Courtesy of Zach WeinersmithĪt the risk of over-thinking the project entirely, there's something very cool about seeing the collision of two kinds of book technology.

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