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The article discusses the pros and cons of bookrolls and codexes (books), which is interesting, but it doesn't really discuss how books changed how people read.
by jamesrcole 7y ago
The article discusses the pros and cons of bookrolls and codexes (books), which is interesting, but it doesn't really discuss how books changed how people read.
- m0nty 7y agoJoshua Foer goes into this in 'Moonwalking with Einstein', approaching from the view of a would-be mnemonist and how scrolls were far less efficient than books. OA touches on headings, indexes and tables of content, but Foer goes into more detail and discusses how these innovations made books a far more powerful way to store, index and retrieve knowledge. It's not exactly a deep dive but it might provide some roads into the subject.