Codex in Crisis, by Anthony Grafton

Building on his essay for the New Yorker magazine, Princeton professor Anthony Grafton sets the digitization of books into a sweeping historical context and explores the implications of new media for the ways we read, write, and store information. A second edition, revised by the author and hand-bound in New York.


From the text:

For the last ten years... the cities of the book have been anything but quiet. The computer and the Internet have transformed reading more dramatically than anything since the printing press. In great libraries from Stanford to Oxford, pages turn, scanners hum, data bases grow, and the world of books, of copyrighted information and repositories of individual copies, trembles.

Publication info:

Second Edition
Date: October 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-9796969-4-7
Binding: Hand-sewn and perfect-bound
Papers: Neenah Classic Laid, Frazier Pegasus, Mohawk Superfine
Size: 6.25" x 8"
Pages: 64