The Electric Archive What does it mean for a magazine to leave no paper trail?

[PeterK]

The archive was my secret hope for keeping pace with this intimidating crowd. It was a different kind of record than the one I’d ogled in the library. For one thing, it was universally accessible: Every piece was there, always, a record of the past that never left the present. For another, it was easier to sort. Instead of trying to track an author issue over issue, I could gather all his or her writing in a second. I could see how different people dealt with similar assignments. It allowed a faster kind of learning.

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