User:Simon/Literary Machines

Literary Machines

Printed: 19.11.19
Dimensions: 120x145mm
Cover stock: Clairefontaine Trophee (cream) 210gsm
Text stock: Clairefontaine Trophee (cream) 210gsm
Binding: Staple bound Pages: 20pp

A reprint of Ted Nelson's Literary Machines - a small booklet in which Nelson outlines his ideas for Project Xanadu, hypermedia and hypertext. I found this on Monoskop as an OCR'd PDF. What was interesting was how the traces of the scan persisted in the PDF - the dark edges around the pages, the bend of the paper on the glass, the warping in text from moving the paper while scanning. I simply re-imposed these pages onto a new document (of a different size), creating margins around the text and retaining these visual traces. The cover was made simply from taking each page marker, cropping it to the width of the margins (while retaining the dark edges) and stacking them on top of each other.

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  Impromptu front cover, with page numbers stacked on top of each other

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  Spread: Pages 3 & 4

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  Spread: Pages 6 & 7

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  Spread: Pages 13 (in the PDF as a half page) & 14

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  Self back cover (page 19)