Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith

Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers

Emma Smith

368 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds i...

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informative 96%
reflective 40%
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challenging 9%
funny 4%
adventurous 3%
emotional 3%
hopeful 1%
mysterious 1%

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fast 15%

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