Pull quote: “Some people still don’t think digital records match the research value of paper archives, because they don’t carry immediately recognizable personal features—handwriting, for instance. Ms. Nelson finds digital records charismatic too. ‘I would say you can see plenty of the hand of the author in these records, and they can be very compelling,’ she told us. Computer files can tell scholars a lot about how a writer did research, composed, and revised, what Web sites he visited, whom he corresponded with, and more.”
