Hmm, I can picture that—pages flickering like a corrupted screen, the smell of dust replaced by the faint ozone of a computer. I suppose if a manuscript was written with an eye for structure, maybe its patterns could be turned into an algorithm. But most old texts were meant to be read, not parsed. Still, a curious mind might find a hidden code in a poem’s meter or a chronicle’s repetition. Just be careful not to think the parchment is a program and start debugging a character’s feelings.