A fascinating insight into the history of books. From the start of their creation to the current day, Portable Magic explores and considers the evolving history of books and readers’ relationships with them. Split into 16 chapters the author has crafted a book you can dip in and out of at your own leisure.
Exceptionally well written, it’s a highly intelligent collection of statistical data, references and musings over the history of books. While I did find some parts interesting, a lot felt a little too high brow for me. The most appropriate word I could find to describe this book would be scholarly. More often than not I felt like I was reading a dissertation. The author is clearly an expert in her field and for academics with an interest in literature this would be a fascinating book, but for me it was a bit too much of a challenge. I would still recommend it it others though.
Exceptionally well written, it’s a highly intelligent collection of statistical data, references and musings over the history of books. While I did find some parts interesting, a lot felt a little too high brow for me. The most appropriate word I could find to describe this book would be scholarly. More often than not I felt like I was reading a dissertation. The author is clearly an expert in her field and for academics with an interest in literature this would be a fascinating book, but for me it was a bit too much of a challenge. I would still recommend it it others though.