a man with one watch knows what time it is

[cellio]

My congregation tries to have recent b'nei mitzvah do the torah readings on the high holy days, but they sometimes need adults to fill in and I usually get tapped for this. So it was no surprise to get a piece of mail on Thursday with a portion. They don't need to mail me the portion (just telling me the verses would be fine), but it's easier on the office to mail things out to everybody, I'm told. So now I have another piece of paper that I can't recycle because it contains the divine name; into the stack it goes, and someday I'll make that stack someone else's problem. So far so good.

Then today came the audio CD, which I also don't need, but it's easier on the office... But what I am to make of the one-verse offset between the written passage and what's on the CD? Oops. (It's written on the CD, else I never would have noticed because I never would have played it.)

I can handle it either way (in fact, I've already negotiated the boundary with the person before me, whose CD was also off by one), but I hope this doesn't mess anyone else up. Or rather, I hope the other readers are also observant enough to notice the problem before they get too far. Maybe I better call the office on Tuesday.

Comments

[geekosaur]

My understanding is that digital reproduction is ephemeral (both CRT and LCD screens need to be "refreshed" multiple times per second to retain their contents) so it doesn't apply.

[alaricmacconnal.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that the Kindle would fall somewhere in between a printed page and a CRT / LCD (as I understand it, once the image is presented, it remains until explicitly erased - doesn't use any energy to maintain ... kind of like "etch-a-sketch" - the image stays until shaken)?