Don't hope to get rid of books (Umberto Eco)
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Books and their creators. Printers, publishers, and visionaries who pioneered the book industry.

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Books and their creators. Printers, publishers, and visionaries who pioneered the book industry.
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A story of how people made books over 530 years, featuring biographical sketches of 18 significant figures. Under the covers are majestic folio Bibles and photocopied samizdat magazines from the 2020s. It tells the lives of those who brought numerous book forms—strange and wonderful in their own way, familiar and new—to life.

We'll talk about paper production, bindings, and fonts, libraries and printing houses, insatiable collectors, and publishers who churned out a book a week. Our journey will take us through England, France, and North America, to second-century China and to Islamic countries in the 8th century. The narrative is vibrant with life, filled with unexpected circumstances and whims, successes and failures.
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