Paper
an elegy
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Word Count
57,500 words, Guess
Page Count
230 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivepaperelegy00sans
- Internet Archivepaperelegy0000sans
- Internet Archivepaperelegy0000sans_t9u2
- ISBN-139780062241436
- ISBN-100062295616
and 7 more
- ISBN-100062241435
- ISBN-139780062295613
- Library of Congress Control Number2012286478
- OCLC Control Number843125280
- Better World Books9780062295613
- Better World Books9780062241436
- Open LibraryOL26469404M
Classifications
- DDC676.09
- LCCTS1090
- LCCTS1090 .S337 2012
Description
Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost' Everything would be lost. aper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and diaries, but as beer mats and birth certificates, board games and business cards, fireworks and flypaper, photographs and playing cards, tickets and tea bags. We are paper people. But the age of paper is coming to an end. E-books regularly outsell physical books. E-tickets replace the paper variety. Archives are digitized. The world we know was made from paper, and yet everywhere we look, paper is beginning to disappear. As we enter a world beyond paper, Ian Sansom explores the paradoxes of the greatest of man-made materials and shows how some kinds of paper, and the ghosts and shadows of paper, will always be with us. Paper: An Elegy is a history of paper in all its forms and functions. Both a cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of paper, this book is a timely meditation on the very paper it is printed on.
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Other Editions
- Paper: an elegy
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