

The Book
Author: Amaranth Borsuk
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 07/10/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
Synopsis
Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive. Despite nostalgic paeans to the codex and its printed pages, Borsuk reminds us, the term "book" commonly refers to both medium and content. And the medium has proved to be malleable. Rather than pinning our notion of the book to a single form, Borsuk argues, we should remember its long history of transformation. Considering the book as object, content, idea, and interface, she shows that the physical form of the book has always been the site of experimentation and play. Rather than creating a false dichotomy between print and digital media, we should appreciate their continuities.