A History of Reading

This is “A History of Reading”. “The History of Reading” would contain so many more chapters highlighting different aspects of reading, as outlined in this one's last chapter. And there is always more to say, but Manguel fills this one with the right amount of history, anecdotes and stories. About the object, the person and the act, the book, the reader and the act of reading. He, who read to a blinding Borges in his youth, knows he wrote this book for his family of bibliophiles and ties his wonderful historical exploration together with the characters and portraits of those who were as enchanted and as in love with books as this book's likely reader.