I liked the sound of this book, the history of books isn't something I know much about. However, upon reading it, it's just so heavy going that I couldn't read more than a few pages at a time. I love non-fiction books and for my job I read scientific papers on a regular basis, but this was so much more difficult to read than scientific papers! There are so many long words that I've never heard before, breaking the flow of the narrative, and it just feels like the author is trying to convince you that she knows so much more about this than you do (which she obviously does). I think it was Einstein who said once 'you don't really understand something until you can explain it simply', and that feels true with this book - there's no doubting the amount of research which has gone into preparing it, but it wasn't conveyed in an easy-to-understand way. The best thing about it was finding a typo which gave the age of someone on the Titanic as 314!