Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Lots of authors thank their families, but who thanks their optician?

In a book that is about the infrastructure critical to paperwork, to how paper works, I want to thank the people and institutions that provided specific infrastructural support for the writing of this book: . . . the staff at Eye Q in Harvard Square, who convinced me to get another set of progressive lenses specifically designed so I could look at a screen for hours on end without getting headaches; . . .

Craig Robertson, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information (St. Paul, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2021), p. 263

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