Welcome to my first portfolio for my second round of EL 336. So far, we’ve covered mostly assigned texts regarding the materiality of books, which was a heavily covered topic last time around in this course. Our main reading, The Late Age of Print covered a historical perspective of where books have gone since the [...]
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While reading Chapter 5 and the Conclusion of The Late Age of Print, I felt mixed emotions regarding not only the future of printed books but also about the extreme security measures taken to protect Harry Potter‘s secrets until the designated global release date. While I think J.K. Rowling and her publishers did an excellent job [...]
I bought those books and found that my hands remembered the texture of the stiff pages. My nose remembered their scent. These aren’t the same volumes that we owned, but they’re composed of the same pulp, glue, ink, and binding thread. Their dusty aroma conjures a cheap little one-story house on Highland Lane in [...] Just as “video kiled the radio star,” many partisans of print believe that e-books threaten to kill off their paper-based counterparts. Their fears may not be altogether unfounded. —Stiphas (22) The first reading of The Late Age of Print takes me back yet again to the spring semester of my sophomore year when I last enrolled in [...] |
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