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Hardcover Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book

ISBN: 0192847317

ISBN13: 9780192847317

Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty-first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse. It traces a twin fear of omniscience and oblivion back to...

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