Evolution of Reading

Rosetta stone 196 BC 
Egypt, Ptolemaic Period

Timeline of Reading / Writing

Stone or Clay Tablets  4000-3000 BC
Scroll and Papyrus 3000 BC
Bound Book 1500 BC
Printing Press Around 1439 AD

• Rosetta stone 196 BC Egypt, Ptolemaic Period
• Dead Sea Scrolls are early Jewish texts written or copied from about 250 B.C. to A.D. 50.
• The oldest Jewish prayer book, dating back to 840 AD [Bound]
• Gutenberg Press

Dead Sea Scrolls are early Jewish texts
 written or copied from
about 250 B.C. to A.D. 50.

Whether we like it or not Electronic Books are inevitable

The oldest Jewish prayer book, 
dating back to 840 AD [Bound]

• 2008 Christian Science Monitor Goes Online
• 2010 U.S. News and World Report Goes Digital-Only 
• 2011 Encyclopaedia Britannica  -- End of a 244-Year Era as Encyclopedia Britannica Goes Web-Only
• 2012 NewsWeek  After 80 years in print, the news magazine adopts an all-digital format.
• 2012  States Accelerate E-Textbook Adoption - Notably in Florida, which has mandated digital textbooks in all schools statewide by the 2015-2016 school year