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Ninety-two-year-old Professor Wallace Kirsop, a renowned Australian expert on rare books, emphasizes the importance of physical artifacts in uncovering history. Despite his impressive career, including co-founding the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand and delivering the Sandars lectures at Cambridge, he expresses concern over the shift to digital. He highlights the discovery of a hidden sketch by Giorgione in a fourteenth-century copy of Dantes Divine Comedy, proving that originals hold secrets scans cant match. Kirsop advocates for the enduring power of print over fleeting technology.

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