Paper An Elegy

Name: Paper An Elegy
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ISBN: 9780062295613

ISBN-10: 0062295616

ISBN-13: 9780062295613

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ian Sansom

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Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear.Would anything be lost?Everything would be lost.aper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and diaries, but as beer mats and birth certificates, board games and business cards, fireworks and flypaper, photographs and playing cards, tickets and tea bags. We are paper people.But the age of paper is coming to an end. E-books regularly outsell physical books. E-tickets replace the paper variety. Archives are digitized. The world we know was made from paper, and yet everywhere we look, paper is beginning to disappear. As we enter a world beyond paper, Ian Sansom explores the paradoxes of the greatest of man-made materials and shows how…

Book details

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/14/2013
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 256
Language: English

Ian Sansom reviews regularly for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. His first book, The Truth About Babies, was published by Granta in 2002.