"Print situates words in space more relentlessly than writing ever did ... By and large, printed text are far easier to read than manuscript texts. The effects of the greater legibility of print are massive. The greater legibility makes for rapid, silent reading. Such reading in turn makes for a different relationship between the reader and the authorial voice in the text and calls for different styles of writing...
Manuscript culture is producer-oriented ... Print is consumer- oriented ..."
-- Walter Ong,
"Print, Space, and Closure,"
Communication in History,
David Crowley &
Paul Heyer, eds.
(NY: Longman) 1995,
p. 116