A Reader’s Manifesto - Open The Magazine
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A Reader’s Manifesto - Open The Magazine
For while it can be many things, serious reading is above all an agency of self-making.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
The French modernists loathed and loved the mass media of their day | Aeon Essays
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“Books are for reading. As straightforward as that may sound, books are still usually promoted with images of pristine books waiting to be read. Being a writer myself, the sight of my own unread books is somewhat unbearable. I prefer those copies that have been read and read to the point that they are almost falling apart. That have earmarks, notes
... See moreREADING: THE TERM is as generous and imprecise as “love.” So often it means more than just the word-by-word deciphering of the printed page.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
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