The papers in this special edition encourage us to understand in greater detail how technology can be used to promote authentic and meaningful assessments and not just making assessments more efficient, and how to deploy e-assessment alongside other strategies.
With the 2012 edition behind us, pundits are already speculating about what will be a contender in 2013.
The new edition gives us the lot in two instalments, a highly priced hardback and a relatively inexpensive paperback.
Michael Hofmann, the translator of this new English edition, warns us in a fine introduction that the novel is in many ways untypical of Roth's other books, many of them looser, more open-grained satirical urban novellas.
In the episode where Toad's caravan is overturned by a speeding motor car, the new Norton edition tells us that Grahame's original version had Ratty shouting after it: "Stockbrokers!" Grahame changed it later to "road hogs".
The commentary may constitute the main attraction, but as this lavish new edition reminds us, the poem is itself a doozy that bristles with all the humor, yearning, pathos, and metaphysical wit that have become synonymous with Nabokov's name.
No Dragon Quest: Handheld Edition for us, I suppose.
In international news, People's Daily Overseas Edition says US Secretary of State John Kerry has made "a good start" during his visit to China on Saturday in contrast with his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, who "aggravated" China's territorial disputes with neighbours.
And although we've driven more beautifully appointed sedans (the $126K Mercedes-Benz S600 Designo edition made us feel like we'd somehow been loaned a rock star's wheels for a weekend), we've never seen a better balanced mix of luxury appointments.
This latest edition gave us the 1994 Ladies Long Drive Championship sponsored by Stay Free Maxi Pads.
