Zachary Kai
Reading Matters
Never did I think organized religion would have such a profound impact on the history of books, nor did I ever believe I’d read a work by a church historian, but such is the beauty of NetGalley!
This brilliant book traces how we’ve read across centuries: scrolls to codexes, manuscripts to print, screens to...what comes next? The question isn’t whether reading is dying (it’s not!) but how our relationship with text keeps shifting. And how the inconsequential becomes earth-shattering.
Would you have considered the popularity of the printing press being strengthened by Martin Luther’s pamphlets? Or words weren’t always written with spaces between them?
Every page, I swear you learn something new or consider a different perspective. Such fascinating reading! Because reading technologies shape not just what we read but how we think.
Academic without being dry, historical without being distant. If books are bridges, this one connects past reading revolutions to our current moment with precision and heart.
I received an early copy courtesy of the publishers via Netgalley. All opinions are mine alone.
Never did I think organized religion would have such a profound impact on the history of books, nor did I ever believe I’d read a work by a church historian, but such is the beauty of NetGalley!
This brilliant book traces how we’ve read across centuries: scrolls to codexes, manuscripts to print, screens to...what comes next? The question isn’t whether reading is dying (it’s not!) but how our relationship with text keeps shifting. And how the inconsequential becomes earth-shattering.
Would you have considered the popularity of the printing press being strengthened by Martin Luther’s pamphlets? Or words weren’t always written with spaces between them?
Every page, I swear you learn something new or consider a different perspective. Such fascinating reading! Because reading technologies shape not just what we read but how we think.
Academic without being dry, historical without being distant. If books are bridges, this one connects past reading revolutions to our current moment with precision and heart.
I received an early copy courtesy of the publishers via Netgalley. All opinions are mine alone.