If students are interested in the idea of digital libraries of digital texts, explore Project Gutenberg and The University of Virginia's EText Initiative. How would we compare the experience of reading from those online archives of text with reading printed books? Remember to be careful about source quality, use at least some peer-reviewed sources, and keep your topic focused enough for a "small paper" (5-10 pages of text).
If students are interested in the evolution of image reproduction, including simulation, forgery, and other forms of duplication of known works of art or commerce, read Maria Bustillos, "How High Def Is Changing Your Brain--and Driving the Prop Master Crazy: Real life at 48 frames per second can blow your mind, or just look fake," Bloomberg Business (www.bloomberg.com), July 20, 2015. We will encounter image reproduction technologies like woodblocks, engravings, hand painted illumination in print and manuscript texts, and these technologies also can be used to produce forgeries. Even some of the cadaver books are forgeries, or at least "false imprints" which are not what they appear to be, and art forgery (including rare books) continues to be a major issue in textual scholarship. Remember to be careful about source quality, use at least some peer-reviewed sources, and keep your topic focused enough for a "small paper" (5-10 pages of text).