Transcripted Copy

The Spread Shot of Keine Kamishirasawa, the kaiju (a Touhou LW original). She attacks with the world's first VHS cassette model. The act of copying a book or document by hand is called transcribing. Various materials, including paper, wood, leather, and stone, have been used to record text throughout the ages, but no material can withstand the passage of time indefinitely. So transcribing was necessary to preserve information that would otherwise have been lost. Of course, transcribing was also a key means of spreading information before the advent of the printing press.

Nowadays, it may seem like information has been freed from the curse of physical erosion, but, in fact, the core issue remains unresolved.