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Oct 20, 2019
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'Treating the book as a bunker may shortchange its potential to engage with the world', writes Leah Price in her latest book What We Talk About When We Talk About Books.

Price is referring to the widespread notion of books as objects of solitary and sedentary reading - the kind of reading seen to be undercut by digital technology. She is also referring, …

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