What We Talk about When We Talk about Books - by Leah Price (Hardcover)

"Unlock the Secrets of Reading with 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Books'! 📚🔍 Are you tired of feeling like you're losing patience for anything longer than a tweet? Do you worry that the golden age of reading is behind us? Fear not, bibliophiles! Leah Price's groundbreaking book reveals that the love of printed matter need not be a form of nostalgia.

📖 With her extraordinary grasp of every development in book history, from incunabula to beach reads, Price offers fresh hope to literature lovers alike.

Her radiant descriptions of the physical properties of books and the forensic traces of earlier bodies holding them will have you reaching for your favorite read in no time! 😍 From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers skimmed and multitasked.

But fear not, digital-age pundits - Price's evidence that books are dying is scarce indeed! 🔎 In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers a dizzying, myth-busting history of reading.

Her account busts many myths about both the past and the future of reading, and upends assumptions about the fate of literature in a digital age.

📚 With her witty, tonic rebuttal to the latest round of doomsday prognostications about the fate of literature, Price shows that books are not dead - they're just evolving! 💪 So why wait? Dive into the fascinating world of 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Books' today and discover the endlessly alive, endlessly shape-shifting and self-reinventing activity that is reading! 📖🔍"