Book Was There Reading in Electronic Times

Name: Book Was There Reading in Electronic Times
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ISBN: 9780226103488

ISBN-10: 022610348X

ISBN-13: 9780226103488

Edition: 2013

Authors: Andrew Piper

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Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper’s surprising and always entertaining essay on reading in an e-reader world. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books, but Piper shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.61" wide x 8.43" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Simon Dunmore is a theatre director. Andrew Piper is an actor and editor of theatre books.



Prologue Nothing Is Ever New



Take It and Read



Face, Book



Turning the Page (Roaming, Zooming, Streaming)



Of Note



Sharing



Among the Trees



By the Numbers


Epilogue Letting Go of the Book


Notes