"Reading about how writing and publishing were practiced in technological contexts that pre-date desktop computers...affect things like writing process and writer-reader relationships."(Kalmbach 220)
This guy had excellent penmanship, as I'm sure did many of his peers. I can't help to think what their websites would have looked like?

 The reading states that the alphabet writing system was developed in Greece and was the original technology of publishing. Have you ever seen the Arabic Alphabet?

Now there's some cultural difference. I often wonder how others in different cultures text on cell phones using their seemingly astounding and intricate libraries of meaning. This I will do more research into. Anyone?

I find it fascinating how the scribes of the Middle Ages adopted the Greek Alphabet and thought it of pinnacle importance to preserve ancient manuscripts and produce good copies. Although, their job on many occasion was to interpret these scripts while reproducing them. This leads me to believe there could have been some rhetorical spin on reproduced documents perhaps to accommodate the interests of those in power. After all, I may read something a different way for a buck! Would you?

Johannes Gutenberg, born in Mainz in 1398, is considered to be the father of the printing press. By 1500 printing was scattered all throughout Europe and even the New World. One of the most influential, circulated books in early printing was:  

Saducismus Triumphatus: or Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions by Joseph Glanvil printed by F. Collins London 1681

Essentially, this book describing evidence for the existence of witches, influenced the Salem witchcraft trials, which took place 10 years later. I find it ironic that at the opposite spectrum of social horror, sits that of burning books, not witches.