The Book on the Bookshelf

The Book on the Bookshelf
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9780307773289
ISBN-13 : 0307773280
Rating : 4/5 (280 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Book on the Bookshelf by : Henry Petroski

Download or read book The Book on the Bookshelf written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, enviably written, and charmed with anecdotes from Seneca to Samuel Pepys to a nineteenth-century bibliophile who had to climb over his books to get into bed, The Book on the Bookshelf is indispensable for anyone who loves books.


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