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Who Needs Books?: Reading in the Digital Age
Lynn Coady
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Description for Who Needs Books?: Reading in the Digital Age
Paperback. Are books on the way to extinction or just adapting to our changing world? Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 133 x 5. Weight in Grams: 85.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Alberta, Canada
ISBN
9781772121247
SKU
V9781772121247
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Lynn Coady
Lynn Coady is an award-wining author and journalist. Her first novel, Strange Heaven, was nominated for the Governor General's Award, and in 2011, her novel The Antagonist was shortlisted for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, an award she won in 2013 for her short story collection Hellgoing. Coady lives in Toronto, where she writes for television.
Reviews for Who Needs Books?: Reading in the Digital Age
#7 on the Edmonton Journal's Non-fiction Bestsellers list for the week of April 15, 2016 The Edmonton Journal. [Coady] digs into the recurring social panic that new technology is making us stupid, lazy and unable to appreciate our established cultural forms... Starting with a Sesame Street anecdote and carrying on through Planet of the Apes and 50 Shades of ... Read more