Olympics!

A live post, while I'm watching the start of the Games on my laptop -- the whole thing collapsed into 12 inches. But it's the history of the book! Manuscript to print! A scroll! A codex! The ridiculous BBC commentator is now talking about the history of movable type! History of the Book MAs won't know what has hit them: 6 billion watching. And -- hang on -- my god -- is that Peter Beal strolling nonchalantly out to the middle of the field? Peter Beal, with his new A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450 to 2000 tucked under his arm ...