Secret Lives of Readers (The Chronicle)

“You’re looking for teardrops on the page,” says Leah Price, a professor of English at Harvard University and the author of How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton University Press, 2012). “You’re looking for some hard evidence of what the book did to its reader”—and what the reader did with the book.

Interesting read on the history of the book as well as the history of reading and reading habits. Love this kind of stuff.

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    Will have to find out if/when some books mentioned in this article show up at the bookstore. They sound utterly...
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    “Echoes of Victorians’ shifting attitudes toward text carry over into this era of digital reading. The 19th century had...
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    An interesting article on the history of…not books, but reading!
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