"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is
crumbling to dust, but there's one important thing to keep in mind:
as we know it." What happens if we separate the idea of "the book"
from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady
challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront
their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of
reading. Is the all-pervasive internet turning readers into
web-surfing automatons and books themselves into museum pieces? The
bogeyman of technological change has haunted humans ever since
Plato warned about the dangers of the written word, and every
generation is convinced its youth will bring about the end of
civilization. In Who Needs Books?, Coady suggests that, even though
digital advances have long been associated with the erosion of
literacy, recent technologies have not debased our culture as much
as they have simply changed the way we read.
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