LEADER 03560cam a2200493 i 4500001 10124393 005 20151111201146.0 008 120206t20122012ilua b 000 0 eng c 003 hubpceuo 010 2012004868 020 9780226669786 (cloth : alkaline paper) 020 0226669785 (cloth : alkaline paper) 020 |z9780226922898 (e-book) 020 |z0226922898 (e-book) 024 99951674315 035 (OCoLC)ocn776033016 035 (OCoLC)776033016 |z(OCoLC)814318627 035 (NNC)10124393 040 ICU/DLC |erda |cSTF |dCGU |dDLC |dBTCTA |dBDX |dUKMGB |dYDXCP |dOCLCO |dYAM |dCDX |dBWX |dVP@ |dAU@ 041 eng 042 pcc 050 00 Z1003 |b.P576 2012 082 00 028.9 |223 100 1 Piper, Andrew, |d1973-, |eauthor. 242 |yEnglish 245 10 Book was there : |breading in electronic times / |cAndrew Piper. 260 Chicago ;London : |bUniversity of Chicago Press, |c2012. 300 xiii, 192 p. : |bill. ; |c23 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 Prologue : nothing is ever new -- Take it and read -- Face, book -- Turning the page (roaming, zooming, streaming) -- Of note -- Sharing -- Among the trees -- By the numbers -- Epilogue : letting go of the book. 520 Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation-and the father of two digital natives-he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper's surprising and always entertaining essay on reading in an e-reader world. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books, but Piper shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books, print or digital. From medieval manuscript books to today's playable media and interactive urban fictions, Piper explores the manifold ways that physical media have shaped how we read, while also observing his own children as they face the struggles and triumphs of learning to read. In doing so, he uncovers the intimate connections we develop with our reading materials-how we hold them, look at them, share them, play with them, and even where we read them-and shows how reading is interwoven with our experiences in life. Piper reveals that reading's many identities, past and present, on page and on screen, are the key to helping us understand the kind of reading we care about and how new technologies will-and will not-change old habits. Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, Book Was There is an elegantly argued and thoroughly up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world. 650 0 Books and reading. 650 0 Books and reading |xHistory. 650 0 Reading |xTechnological innovations. 650 0 Electronic books. 650 0 Digital media. 900 AUTH 942 |2ddc |cBK 948 1 20130128 |bc |cjeb52 |dMPS 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6028_900000000000000_PIP |70 |8REF |925124OSA |bOSA |d2014-01-10 |eOSA |l0 |o028.9 PIP |r2014-01-10 |w2014-01-10 |yBK |cReference 920 01 2oW52ZYv 992 01 028_900000000000000_PIP |bZXR_QZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_AHA 966 |cIn the Research Room