What We Talk about When We Talk about Books: The History and Future of Reading (Audiobook)

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In the end, this is a fascinating book. But for much of its length, this slender volume is far to discursive for my tastes. Professor Price is probably a charming and engaging teacher, but I find her most recent book to be wandering about. Perhaps the problem is with my expectations. I thought th...

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I slow read this to start and then fast-read this to finish (primarily because its due back before today's opening at the Hershey Library). It is more a history of BOOKS and HOW and the PHYSICAL of books rather than the WHY, WHAT, or WHO of books. There is a lot to unpack in this, and its done ve...

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An exposé on books and reading. At close to two hundred pages, this book contains lots of words, but minimal information other than book trivia sprinkled throughout. The two most important items conveyed are, one, the author expects the reader to skip around, to not read every page and two, the a...

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Didn't much care for her writing style - a bit pompous in my view. I found it hard to clearly identify her thesis since she seemed to contradict herself from one chapter to the next. Also, her claim that mental health professionals, in recommending self-help books, have outsourced their work to l...

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The theme for this author appears to be that print books are interesting, but not really all that different from digital formats that offer equivalent texts. There is no denying the author's expertise on the subject of books, and she writes with a delightful and engaging style. For me, the proble...