What We Talk About When We Talk About Books The History And Future Of Reading 2019 (Leah Price)

978-1541673908 Basic Books, NY 2019

Catergory: 21st Century Literary Criticism, 21st Century Literary Criticism, History of Books

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated 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 willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day’s news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world’s great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions. The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. In encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.
Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, 2020 Click to expand…
Contents of Download:
Talk About Books Part 01 Of 06.mp3 (29:23) (2019) (13.53 MB)
Talk About Books Part 02 Of 06.mp3 (01:07:59) (2019) (31.19 MB)
Talk About Books Part 03 Of 06.mp3 (56:10) (2019) (25.79 MB)
Talk About Books Part 04 Of 06.mp3 (01:02:02) (2019) (28.47 MB)
Talk About Books Part 05 Of 06.mp3 (01:03:50) (2019) (29.3 MB)
Talk About Books Part 06 Of 06.mp3 (55:40) (2019) (25.56 MB)