What do reading a book, smoking a cigarette, throwing confetti and voting in an election have in common? The answer, of course, is paper.
Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world.
Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell their physical counterparts. Still, there are some uses of paper that seem unlikely to change - Christmas won't be Christmas without wrapped presents or crackers. And the language of paper - documents, files and folders - has survived digitisation.
In Paper: An Elegy Ian Sansom builds a museum of paper and explores its paradox - its vulnerability and durability. This book is a timely meditation on the very paper it's printed on.
| ISBN: | 9780007480265 |
| Publication date: | 25th October 2012 |
| Author: | Ian Sansom |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 230 pages |
| Genres: |
Book design and Bookbinding Society and culture: general |
What do reading a book, smoking a cigarette, throwing confetti and voting in an election have in common? The answer, of course, is paper.
Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world.
Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell their physical counterparts. Still, there are some uses of paper that seem unlikely to change - Christmas won't be Christmas without wrapped presents or crackers. And the language of paper - documents, files and folders - has survived digitisation.
In Paper: An Elegy Ian Sansom builds a museum of paper and explores its paradox - its vulnerability and durability. This book is a timely meditation on the very paper it's printed on.
Paper features in the following genres: Book design and Bookbinding, Society and culture: general
Paper is available in Hardback
Paper was written by Ian Sansom and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Paper has 230 pages