What We Talk About When Books: The History And Future Of Reading Leah Price Basic Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Language Linguistics Teaching

Around 2000 People Began To Believe That Books Were On Verge Of Extinction Their Obsolescence In Turn Was Expected Doom The Habits Mind Longform Print Had Once Prompted: Capacity Follow A Demanding Idea From Start Finish Look Beyond Day\ S News Or Even Just Be Alone \ Death Book\ Is An Anxiety Has Spawned Thousand Jeremiads About Dumbing Down American Culture Ever-Shorter Attention Spans Our Children Collapse Civilized Discourse All These Anxieties Rely Golden Age When And Adults Alike Sat Quietly For Long Stretches Reading Edifying Literature Improved Minds Souls Booklover By Temperament As Much Profession Professor Leah Price Wanted But Historian Book Searching Out Traces Long-Dead Readers Through Marginalia Unbroken Spines She Wonder If Current Digital Discontents Stirring Up Nostalgia Past Never Existed You At Old What Do Find? Few Well-Greased Pagespreads Limply Scattered Among Hundreds Remained Spotlessly Crisp Essays Stained With Beer Aloud Pub Novels Crumpled Being Hidden Pocket Eighteenth-Century Dawn Mass Literacy Cold-War-Era Triumph Paperback Read Cover-To-Cover Meditatively Silence We Have Been Shocked - Shocked!--By Data Kindle Shows Most Rarely Them Skip Large Sections Between It Always So Fact History Deep\ Strongly Discouraged Doctors Clergymen Warned Could Addict Distract Corrupt--Not Ideas Contained Very Experience Running One\ Eyes Over Page Centuries Women Especially Repeatedly Not Spend Too Time Lest Excite Other More Tasks Impatient Untempered Worship Emphasizes Continuities Present Practices Dispels Myth Multiple Fronts Anti-Nostalgic Examination Future Talk Will Fascinate Bibliophiles Stripes Σελίδες: 224 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1029 Διαστάσεις: 14 2X14 2Cm