Notes on "Understanding Digital Humanities", Ed by David M Berry

Does the notion of "text" change in a digital world? If so, how?  Certainly, ontologically, or how the text "bes" in the digital world is different from how the text "bes" in the written world.  It is endlessly mutable and not permanent. It's like revision becomes part and parcel of the work. There is not a final version.  The text is not contained geographically either--it can be read by anyone, anywhere. It is hard to contain or control. You can't burn a book that's on the web.

If the text is inherently different, does that mean that "reading" is as well?

What if all we read were summaries of readings, written by others and our "reading" was making meaning of these summaries? We would certainly have access to many more texts, but what do we lose?

I found this book to be largely useless. I felt like I was reading some kind of Foucaultian analysis of the humanities and digital technology, making something much more complicated than it is or needs to be.