5 Selected Sentences from Michelle Levy and Tom Mole, eds., The Broadview Reader in Book History
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“. . . the results are consistent: people read less, and they read print less well.” pg. 492
Katherine Hayles, “How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine,” ADE Bulletin No. 150, 2010: 62-79
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“We are breeding generations of distracted readers, people who simply cannot pay attention long enough to finish a book.” pg. 512
Andrew Piper, “Turning the Page (Roaming, Zooming, Streaming),” Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times, Chicago: Chiacgo UP, 2012. 45-61
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“Can an ordinary reader, untrained in its forms and methods, develop and “eye” for typography, as the music lover cultivates and “ear” for detecting a particular musician’s performance of a score?” pg. 68
Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton, “Reading the Invisible,” Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2001. I-II, 15
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“To portray early printers as early capitalists enables one to regard them as innovators.” pg. 222
Elizabeth L. Einstein, “The Unacknoledged Revolution,” The Printing Press as and Agent of Change. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1979. 3-42
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“Any printed book is, as a matter of fact, both the product of one complex set of social and technological processes and also the starting point for another.”
Adrian Johns, ”Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book,” The Nature of the Book: Print Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. 1-57