Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Who needs books? : reading in the digital age / Lynn Coady.
Author
Coady, Lynn, 1970-
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press : Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne, 2016.
©2016
Description
xvii, 49 pages ; 23 cm
Availability
Available Online
Canada Commons: Books & Documents
Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
Z1003 .C624 2016
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Books and reading
—
Technological innovations
—
Social aspects
[Browse]
Electronic books
—
Social aspects
[Browse]
Series
Henry Kreisel lecture series
[More in this series]
CLC Kreisel lecture series
Summary note
"What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges book lovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive Internet turning readers into web-surfing automatons and books themselves into museum pieces? The bogeyman of technological change has haunted humans ever since Plato warned about the dangers of the written word, and every generation is convinced its youth will bring about the end of civilization. In Who Needs Books?, Coady suggests that, even though digital advances have long been associated with the erosion of literacy, recent technologies have not debased our culture as much as they have simply changed the way we read."-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
Co-published by Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-49).
Language note
Text in English ; Foreward is in both English and French.
Other format(s)
Issued also in electronic format.
Other title(s)
Reading in the digital age
ISBN
9781772121247 ((paperback))
177212124X ((paperback))
LCCN
2016286237
OCLC
919683220
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
Who needs books? : reading in the digital age / Lynn Coady.
id
99125259890006421
Who needs books? : reading in the digital age / Lynn Coady.
id
SCSB-12577689