My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. — Robert Darnton Electronic Copy Share Image
“To eat one's fill, eat until the exhaustion of the appetite, was the principal pleasure that the peasants dangled before their imagination,… — Robert Darnton Dreams coming true Copy Share Image
I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not… — Robert Darnton Believe Copy Share Image
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in… — Robert Darnton 1960s Copy Share Image
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist -… — Robert Darnton Brief Copy Share Image