My relationship with social media and the hardware required was not made in heaven it has been an association of necessity.  Although we have become bedfellows we do stick to our own sides of the bed.  Until Friday when I got intimate with the Gutenberg Press and its Bible of circa 1440.
The Gutenberg Bible was the first book to be printed with moveable type in the west; and the first to be produced on a printing press in the world.

Here at the University of Reading in the Typography Department we have replica of the Gutenberg Press, built for the BBC documentary Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press.  My colleagues from the Library were given an opportunity to use the press on Friday. While my printing of the page of the bible was not perfect I will treasure it.  I will also wonder how my forebears must have received the printing press;  For some it was not such good news especially for those who made a living from hand copying books.  On the other hand for up and coming authors; such as Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther it must have seemed like a miracle.

So now I will try to embrace technological the changes as they come and go; my difficulties are nothing to those undertaken just under 600 years ago; before and after the Gutenberg Press!