![]() ![]() Rather than pinning our notion of the book to a single form, Borsuk argues, we should remember its long history of transformation. And the medium has proved to be malleable. Despite nostalgic paeans to the codex and its printed pages, Borsuk reminds us, the term “book” commonly refers to both medium and content. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book’s development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately.Ĭontrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive. Are those books? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. It was preceded by clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. ![]()
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