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The Gutenberg elegies : the fate of reading in an electronic age
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The Gutenberg elegies : the fate of reading in an electronic age

Author: Sven Birkerts
Publisher: New York : Faber and Faber, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Pbk. edView all editions and formats
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In this boldly original challenge to the new information technologies--an essential work for anyone who cares about the future of books--Birkerts shows how, in our abrupt, heedless switch from book to  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sven Birkerts
ISBN: 9780865479579 0865479577
OCLC Number: 122308836
Notes: "With a new introduction and afterword"--Cover.
Description: xv, 251 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Part I. The reading self --
Part II. The electronic millennium --
Part III. Critical mass: Three meditations.
Responsibility: Sven Birkerts.
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"Birkerts on reading fiction is like M.F.K. Fisher on eating or Norman Maclean on fly casting. He makes you want to go do it." --"The New Yorker"

 
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