The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Eisenstein’s tome about the history of the advent of printing has one central argument: that the printing press enabled a stability of text which in turn drove rapid advances in science and learning.
Early
On The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
With Borges
Alberto Manguel
A slim volume, with Manguel’s youthful memories of evenings spent reading to Borges in his home in Buenos Aires.
Long enough
On With Borges
Finishing
On With Borges & How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Caring critics
On There’s Nothing Funny About Design
On strength
On Man’s Search for Himself
The reader’s complaint
On There’s Nothing Funny About Design & Collected Fictions
There’s Nothing Funny About Design
David Barringer
A clever (and, yes, funny) collection of essays.
Truth in fiction
On Man’s Search for Himself & 1984
Language and history
On Man’s Search for Himself
Man’s Search for Himself
Rollo May
A work of existential psychology, May’s text is intelligent and engaging, with prose as lovely as the insights are profound.
On the library
I wonder if the promise of an ebook isn’t the book but the library.
Loss
On The Library at Night
The future
On Designing for People
Designing for People
Henry Dreyfuss
The first book on industrial design.
Beginnings
The relaunch of A Working Library, and what I’ve come to think of as a new beginning.
On readers
On The Library at Night
The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel
A series of meandering essays on the subject of the library.