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Title: A History of Reading in the West by Guglielmo Cavallo, Roger Chartier, Lydia G. Cochrane ISBN: 1-55849-411-1 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Could be better
Comment: The content is wonderful! The book provides much insight to different reading practices and how they change through the years. But...
1. The footnotes need to be on the same page as the text. It is hard to keep your place when you constantly have to flip to the back of the book. Also, if the notes were on the same page, I could see whether or not I needed to read the footnote for more information.
2. Provide tranlations of foreign quotations. I don't know about you, but it has been a while since I had a foreign language course.
3. Some of the chapters could be better edited. For example, in chapter 8 ("Protestant Reformations and Reading"), contributing author Jean-Francois Gilmont needs to pinpoint dates more clearly. He mentions a twenty-year span in which the separation of the printed book from the hand-lettered book was finally completed, but says it happened soon after Luther preached against indulgences (p. 214). If Luther talked to the Archbishop of Mainz in 1518 about indulgences, isn't it logical that it was not in 1540 that the separation was complete?
4. The style of writing seems to jump from readable to dry. I know each chapter is by a different author, but is there any way there could be more fluidity from chapter to chapter?
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Title: Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) by David D. Hall, David B. Hall ISBN: 1558490493 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Order of Books by Roger Chartier, Lydia G. Cochrane ISBN: 0804722676 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Book History Reader by David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery ISBN: 0415226589 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel ISBN: 0140166548 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Book Before Printing : Ancient, Medieval and Oriental by David Diringer ISBN: 0486242439 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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