The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Name: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Author: Sven Birkerts
ISBN: 9780865479579

Author Sven Birkerts

Publisher Faber & Faber

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Author(s)Sven Birkerts

PublisherFaber & Faber

ISBN / ASIN0865479577

ISBN-139780865479579

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What hath the inexpensive personal computer, the portable cassette player, and the CD-ROM wrought? Are books as we know them dead? And does--or should--it matter if they are? Birkerts, a renowned critic, examines the practice of reading with an eye to what the future will bring.