robertwalserfan:This is a roman wax tablet, used in ancient...

robertwalserfan:

This is a roman wax tablet, used in ancient schooling to make temporary notes by scratching into the wax. It’s the form from which the codex evolves. A codex is a book; something with a spine and pages. Once invented the book quickly replaced the scroll. they’re compact and the cover is protective. But the laptop computer (or ‘notebook’) more closely resembles this ancestral design form than the book does. And eventually, tablet computers even more so. Which can give books th...