I. Down the Rabbit Hole

Details of any adaptation or remediation can transform a text: the very title of the \'Alice\'s Adventures Under Ground\' manuscript invites us to take the descent down the rabbit hole more literally. But as I write this, I\'m not looking at the manuscript itself—I\'m on the British Library website looking at the \'Turning the Pages\' virtual book version. Does it matter? You aren't actually reading this in my notebook either—I\'ve scanned it in, and now I\'ve retyped it while looking at the scan of my own journal page. Andrew Piper has explored the apparent \'absence\' of a book when it is removed from its physical body in this way, and there\'s a definite physicality to page-turning that is lost.
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