What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Leah Price

224 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 willpowe...

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