finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks
how about never tell a media studies scholar how to represent a text
Sitting with the semiotics of fixed typography, as signifier of the book as artifact, that would be elided by a mere copypasta of raw text.
To wit, the OP specifically is presenting this passage as historically situated in a specific media form.