In August 1999, I was blogging about

• Conservation efforts at Poohsticks Bridge
• A Penmanship camp in Philadelphia
• Recovering the only known copy of a lost work by the Greek mathematician Archimedes (erased by a 10th-century monk who scraped off the writing to reuse the parchment)
• Fourth-graders using e-books at Resurrection Catholic School in Dayton, Ohio
• Noted bibliophile Sven Birkerts having a disappointing encounter with ebooks