Good close readings of both projects, Christina (and I'm glad to see someone tackling the MOO).

"I envision a time when we will have it all: a digital version of a codex-based text that will not only preserve the original in its entirety, but will launch the reader into a sensory encounter with the text that will transcend the flat page from which it was born."

Yes, and I'd welcome this, so long as we're clear that no reproduction, digital or otherwise, will ever replace the experience of the original. It's Benjamin's aura at work, but it's also something more pragmitic: representation is quantum in McGann's sense, and there are an infinite number of variables that one needs to isolate and then either accept or reject in crafting any reproduction. Scale is one of them: most Blake's illuminated books are about the size of a paperback book--we tried to preserve that in the WBA by way of the ImageSizer applet, but it's something that can easily be overlooked. One of the real joys of seeing Blakes in person--which I urge you to do should you ever get the chance--is there miniature scale--"the world in the grain of sand," as Bill himself might have put it. Hard to account for that on a flatscreen.