The process of altering text involves highlighting (wanted) and obscuring (unwanted) words, phrases or individual letters of text while retaining their original positions on the original paper. I am currently working through the 529 pages contained within 'Cloud Atlas' by David Mitchell.

My inspiration is gleened from the incredibly creative folk involved in the Yahoo alteredtext group and from Tom Philips altered book 'A Humument' http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument/