The document discusses how digital technologies have changed literary scholarship and textual analysis. It notes that scholars no longer need physical books to analyze other texts and can now access digitized texts, facsimiles, and critical editions online. Digital environments allow for participatory and spatial experiences of literature beyond traditional print. Texts can now be manipulated, searched, visualized and transformed using tools like word clouds, text analysis programs, and digital archives. This represents a shift to a database-driven culture for literary works.