The Future of Reading McMahon Lectures books (1972) 007

（James F. White）In 1884 a Chicago businessman, A. B. Dick, solved a business need for rapid duplication by inventing a process for stencil duplication. It proved so efficient that he marketed it under the name of“Mimeograph”. Gutenberg made it possible to put prayer books in the hands of people; Dick made prayer books obsolete. Prayer books are mostly propers which are hard to locate and confusing to most people. Dick gave each minister his own printing press and a new possibility of printing only what was needed to do the same for hymnals.

(James M. A. White) In 1884, a Chicago businessman A. White) B. Dick invented a method of template copying that addressed the commercial need for rapid copying. This method proved to be very effective, so he named it "imitation utensils". Gutenberg made it possible to put the prayer book in the hands of people; Dick made the prayer book obsolete. Prayer books often mean chapters that are difficult to place, thus embarrassing most people. Dick gave each pastor his own printing press, offering a new possibility of printing only what was needed, as if he had picked what was needed from a hymn collection.

Press: Gutenberg solves the problem of copying information, and Dick solves the problem of copying information quickly and quickly.

Mimeographing only prints the required chapters or even a certain paragraph of a certain page, which highlights the shortcomings of the mechanism book: First, the book as an information container is greater than the immediate information demand, and the book is hated when it is used - the book is used to hate less, saying that the association of information is not the stock of information - and the second is that the shape of the book adds a kind of trouble to the information to determine the location.

This passage, quoted by James F. White, New Forms of Worship (New York: Abingdon Press, 1971, p28)