Essential reading
10th-century technology, a vellum manuscript bound in leather over wooden boards. The bound book is unlikely to become defunct due to its unmediated usability (St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 17).
Yesterday, Times columnist Giles Coren wrote that we should ban physical books because some people have started a fashion of matching book spines to …
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