A Skeuomorphic View of Book History

The following was delivered as the keynote for the “Thinking Through Printing” symposium at the University of Toronto on June 4, 2026. This talk is part of a series that will become an article, and some text repeats from a previous talk, “Anemoia, AI, and Skeuomorphism: The Material Turn in Digital Humanities”, given at Purdue’s inaugural DH Day in April 2026. If you read or heard that earlier…