What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
Author: Leah Price Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom the habits of mind that longform print had once prompted: the capacity to follow a demanding idea from start to finish, to look beyond the day's news, or even just to be alone. The "death of the book" is an anxiety that has spawned a thousand jeremiads about the dumbing...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading