Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books by Margaret Willes

Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books

Margaret Willes

304 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This b...

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