The Gutenberg Elegies
Registered by LastCavalier of Springfield, Virginia USA on 5/21/2022
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading. Drawing on his own passionate, lifelong love of books, Birkerts examines how literature intimately shapes and nourishes the inner life. What does it mean to "hear" a book on audiotape, decipher its words on a screen, or interact with it on CD-ROM? Are books as we know them dead?
At once a celebration of the complex pleasures of reading and a boldly original challenge to the new information technologies, The Gutenberg Elegies is an essential volume for anyone who cares about the past and future of books.
At once a celebration of the complex pleasures of reading and a boldly original challenge to the new information technologies, The Gutenberg Elegies is an essential volume for anyone who cares about the past and future of books.
Journal Entry 2 by LastCavalier at Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Saturday, May 21, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (5/21/2022 UTC) at Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA
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Thank you so much for picking up this book. Please make a journal entry here on this page if you haven’t already done so to let me know that this book has found a good home. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (it is entirely free). If you choose to join, I would love if you could indicate nat4lee referred you.
I really hope you enjoy the book you found! When you’re done reading it, you can make another journal entry with your comments here to let me know what you thought of it. You can keep the book forever and ever or pass it on to someone else. If you’re giving it to someone directly, make another journal entry saying so. If you choose to leave it somewhere “in the wild” for anyone to catch, make release notes that indicate where you left it. If you register, you will be alerted by e-mail each time someone makes another journal entry. It’s all confidential (you’re known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free. Then you can track this book as it goes on its journey!
This was leftover at the end of the 2022 Gaithersburg Book Festival. I hope to continue its journey soon.
I didn't read this one but the back cover blurb makes it sound like a bunch of pearl-clutching about e-books killing reading or some such nonsense. IMHO, reading is reading. And that includes audiobooks and e-books and books on CD-ROM (whatever that means).
I didn't read this one but the back cover blurb makes it sound like a bunch of pearl-clutching about e-books killing reading or some such nonsense. IMHO, reading is reading. And that includes audiobooks and e-books and books on CD-ROM (whatever that means).
Journal Entry 4 by 
6of8
at LFL - Denfeld Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA on Wednesday, July 6, 2022
6of8 at LFL - Denfeld Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA on Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (7/6/2022 UTC) at LFL - Denfeld Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
This book is one of many being passed along to potential readers at local Little Free Libraries on behalf of Melydia who is alive but is not feeling well today.
Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.
Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.
