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title: "Story Index"
url: https://educationrevolutionaries.com/story-index
description: "The complete index of every article in this edition, grouped by department in signature order."
published: 2026-09-06
updated: 2026-09-06
---

# Story Index

Published 2026-09-06

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Complete listing

Every piece in this edition, filed under Textbooks, Libraries, Digital Reading and Literacy, in signature order.

## [Textbooks](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/textbooks)

How the book that a class works from is chosen, printed, priced and replaced.

Textbooks

### A1[How the Schoolbook Became Standard](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/how-the-schoolbook-became-standard)

For most of the history of formal teaching, the book belonged to the teacher.

Textbooks

### A2[The Hornbook and the First Classroom Page](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/the-hornbook-and-the-first-classroom-page)

Before there were schoolbooks there was the hornbook, and it is worth looking at closely because it is the smallest complete teaching object anyone has designed.

Textbooks

### A3[Graded Readers and the Idea of a Series](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/graded-readers-and-the-idea-of-a-series)

The graded reader is such an ordinary object that its central idea is easy to miss.

## [Libraries](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/libraries)

Reading rooms, catalogues and the long argument about who a collection is for.

Libraries

### B1[Public Libraries and the Reading Room](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/public-libraries-and-the-reading-room)

A public library is now understood mainly as a place that lends. Historically the lending was the late addition.

Libraries

### B2[The School Library Catalogue](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/the-school-library-catalogue)

The catalogue card is a small masterpiece of information design, and it is easiest to appreciate by asking what it had to do.

Libraries

### B3[Marginalia and the Second-Hand Textbook](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/marginalia-and-the-second-hand-textbook)

A textbook that has passed through several owners carries a second text written in pencil, and that second text is frequently more informative about the teaching than the printed one.

## [Digital Reading](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/digital-reading)

Files, formats and scanning: what changes when the page stops being paper.

Digital Reading

### C1[What an EPUB File Actually Is](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/what-an-epub-file-actually-is)

An electronic book is often described as if it were a scanned book, which leads to a great deal of confusion about why it behaves the way it does.

Digital Reading

### C2[From Microfilm to the Scanned Page](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/from-microfilm-to-the-scanned-page)

Large-scale copying of printed material for preservation and access is older than computing.

Digital Reading

### C3[The Open Textbook Idea](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/the-open-textbook-idea)

The open textbook proposal is simple to state.

## [Literacy](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/literacy)

Reading aloud, cheap editions and the lists that decide what gets read.

Literacy

### D1[Reading Aloud and the Recorded Book](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/reading-aloud-and-the-recorded-book)

Silent private reading is a comparatively recent default.

Literacy

### D2[What a Reading List Is For](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/what-a-reading-list-is-for)

A reading list looks like an administrative document and functions as a definition.

Literacy

### D3[The Paperback and the Cheap Edition](https://educationrevolutionaries.com/the-paperback-and-the-cheap-edition)

The cheap edition is one of the few genuinely democratising devices in publishing, and its mechanics are worth understanding because they explain both what it achieved and what it could not.

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