Looking through what Walsh has to say seems very exciting indeed. There were certain parts that would particularly impress, particularly where he relates how many texts have been long out of print and are now available in versions edited by highly qualified and accomplished scholars, and they fact that these are available in their original format can offer immense opportunities to students studying prime source material. The fact that these digital texts can be accompanied by supplementary materials such as page images, critical apparatuses, essays, and auxiliary primary source material that was never available in the traditional printed book. Walsh would also maintain that by students would have better access by “allowing interaction with the cumulative body of these objects and tools in networked homes, offices, and cafés free from the traditional confines of often remote archives and libraries”. Because of the huge increase in the volumes of information and publication in the nineteenth century, also the increase in literacy through education , plus the beginnings of mass media and the decreasing costs of publishing, there was a greater need for ever more sophisticated and flexible technologies for representing and managing that information. The nineteenth century would be challenged by the phenomenon of information overload, when the amount of recorded information produced becomes almost impossible to process through traditional means, such as reading. Now however through the arrival of digital technology, cheaper printing, the Internet and word processors, communication would be more efficient and scholars have the facility to communicate their ideas and exchange information on topics of mutual interest. These digital technologies would provide the opportunity to incorporate multimedia such as animation, image, audio, and video, into traditional scholarship. This would open up a new dynamic way of presenting literary and historical research.