Institutions of Reading
Institutions of Reading
The Social Life of Libraries in the United States
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1 released bookStudies in Print Culture and the History of the Book is a 6-book series first released in 1995 with contributions by Cheryl Knott, Augusta Rohrbach, and Priscilla Coit Murphy.
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I am giving this book three stars for how it compares as a textbook, which is the context in which I read it. It's fairly pleasant to read, and some of the chapters cover topics that were truly new and interesting to me. If I was reading this book for pleasure, however, it would be too dry to finish. It would feel too much like reading, well, a textbook.