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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hrs., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the...
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