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When we talk about reading, and whether The Screen is an enemy of The Book, we need to pause to make distinctions. We...
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When we talk about reading, and whether The Screen is an enemy of The Book, we need to pause to make distinctions. We...
Well, Sven Birkerts suspects the Kindle — no surprise there. Interestingly, in the seminar I’m currently...
At a working library I read this: In ancient days, written texts were inscribed on long pieces of parchment that were...
Regarding the post just below: Carr refers to Wikipedia as “a single source of information” — but is it?...
Much of the Robert Darnton article I linked to in an earlier post is concerned with the power that Google now has over...
By which I mean not the reviewing of books but the kind of newspaper section called a book review, as in the New York...
Here’s an excellent article by Robert Darnton, about which I will have more to say later. But for now here’s a...
David Parry at academhack, in a post called “Teaching in the Age of Distraction,” writes, “Let’s be clear: I...
For people interested in the relations between orality and literacy, there’s a fascinating passage in the Biblical...
Over at boingboing, a very interesting post by Steven Johnson in which he discusses, among other things, the research...