Borgman’s Scholarship in the Digital Age argues that contemporary scholarship stands at a decisive crossroads, where digital networks, data proliferation and institutional restructuring transform not only how knowledge is produced and circulated, but also how it is legitimised, preserved and trusted. Its central proposition is that scholarship cannot be reduced to technological adoption, since it operates as a sociotechnical system in which infrastructures, disciplinary cultures, documents, data, incentives, intellectual property and institutional responsibilities are mutually constitutive. The work traces the emergence of the Internet, Web, Grid and digital libraries alongside broader questions of scholarly communication, publishing discontinuity, open access, data sharing and the future “content layer” of research infrastructure. Its examples include the changing role of preprints and conferences, the tensions between peer review and digital legitimacy, the uncertain status of data as both input and output of scholarship, and the uneven incentives for sharing across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. A useful synthesis appears in the contrast between scientific data practices, often reliant on standardisation and repositories, and humanities practices, where context, interpretation and cultural artefacts complicate description, reuse and preservation. Ultimately, Borgman shows that durable digital scholarship requires more than connectivity: it demands infrastructure capable of balancing local and global needs, preserving legacy and born-digital content, separating content from services and tools, sustaining trust, and recognising that information becomes valuable only within communities of practice.