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- True Copy
An expert witness in a boundary dispute proves that a pixel-perfect archive scan has been silently rewriting digits, then recovers the true dimension from the one thing the pulped originals couldn't take with them: the plan's own closing geometry.
- Recension
An editor's preface to the Charter of a colony whose founding text survived only by hand-copying shows how textual criticism rebuilt it from eleven manuscripts, then fell silent at the two places — a missing sentence and a single bar on a numeral — where the court case turned.
- Refcount One
A British Library archivist explains what a content-addressable storage system can and can't prove about who wrote something first — until a woman asks it to find the parts of her father's manuscript that belong to no one else.