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

I’ve had this on my shelves for a year and decided now was finally the time. As a librarian, it was fascinating to read about how books as a medium have developed over the years, and I was particularly taken by the chapter on library books. The type was also a decent size; many other Penguin-published non-fiction books I’ve read in the last couple of years have had off-puttingly small type which I personally find much less readable. I also appreciated that there’s an index at the back; I’m a big fan of a good index.