Leah Price has taught English at Cambridge University, Harvard University, and Rutgers University, where from fall 2019 onward she will be founding director of the Rutgers Book Initiative. She is the author How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain and the editor of Unpacking My Library.
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.
發表於2024-12-23
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評分談論的作為一個物體的書,以及作為一個行為的“讀書”,並不是探討書的內容。目前大熱的電子讀物和書的矛盾,在當年各種新的信息承載程式齣現的時候都有過辯論。“讀書”這個行為並不一直是個高大上的行為。Self-help這個類彆的齣現還真的是help self。海明威扯謊能力太差,好歹找人代裁一下書頁呢。。。。總之我覺得是一本關於書的trivia和花邊新聞一類的感覺。有的地方挺有意思的。我倒是很有興緻地像page turner一樣看完瞭,再看亞馬遜和goodreads上一片嫌棄之聲,覺得果然讀書人真容易耍清高啊。
評分談論的作為一個物體的書,以及作為一個行為的“讀書”,並不是探討書的內容。目前大熱的電子讀物和書的矛盾,在當年各種新的信息承載程式齣現的時候都有過辯論。“讀書”這個行為並不一直是個高大上的行為。Self-help這個類彆的齣現還真的是help self。海明威扯謊能力太差,好歹找人代裁一下書頁呢。。。。總之我覺得是一本關於書的trivia和花邊新聞一類的感覺。有的地方挺有意思的。我倒是很有興緻地像page turner一樣看完瞭,再看亞馬遜和goodreads上一片嫌棄之聲,覺得果然讀書人真容易耍清高啊。
評分談論的作為一個物體的書,以及作為一個行為的“讀書”,並不是探討書的內容。目前大熱的電子讀物和書的矛盾,在當年各種新的信息承載程式齣現的時候都有過辯論。“讀書”這個行為並不一直是個高大上的行為。Self-help這個類彆的齣現還真的是help self。海明威扯謊能力太差,好歹找人代裁一下書頁呢。。。。總之我覺得是一本關於書的trivia和花邊新聞一類的感覺。有的地方挺有意思的。我倒是很有興緻地像page turner一樣看完瞭,再看亞馬遜和goodreads上一片嫌棄之聲,覺得果然讀書人真容易耍清高啊。
評分談論的作為一個物體的書,以及作為一個行為的“讀書”,並不是探討書的內容。目前大熱的電子讀物和書的矛盾,在當年各種新的信息承載程式齣現的時候都有過辯論。“讀書”這個行為並不一直是個高大上的行為。Self-help這個類彆的齣現還真的是help self。海明威扯謊能力太差,好歹找人代裁一下書頁呢。。。。總之我覺得是一本關於書的trivia和花邊新聞一類的感覺。有的地方挺有意思的。我倒是很有興緻地像page turner一樣看完瞭,再看亞馬遜和goodreads上一片嫌棄之聲,覺得果然讀書人真容易耍清高啊。
What We Talk about When We Talk about Books 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載