The book / Amaranth Borsuk.
| Author/creator | Borsuk, Amaranth, 1980- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018] |
| Copyright Date | ©2018 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | The MIT Press essential knowledge series MIT Press essential knowledge series. ^A1063864 |
| Contents | Intro; CONTENTS; SERIES FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. THE BOOK AS OBJECT; The Original Tablet; The Papyrus Scroll; Mineral, Vegetable, Animal; The Alphabet; Scrolls and the Advent of Paper; Paper and Islam's Golden Age; A Networked Text; From Roll to Accordion to Codex; The Manuscript Tradition; Reading and Writing's Shifts -- 2. THE BOOK AS CONTENT; Starting the Presses; Type's Founding; The Press Itself; The Body of the Book; Opening the Book; The Intimate Book; Type and Face; The Aldine Revolution and Portable Libraries; Intellectual Property; The Crystal Goblet -- 3. THE BOOK AS IDEA. |
| Contents | Defining the Artist's Book; William Blake's "Illuminated Printing"; An Aside on Printing Methods: Intaglio and Relief Printing; Stéphane Mallarmé's Book as "Spiritual Instrument"; Ed Ruscha's Democratic Multiples; The New Art of Making Books; The Book's Ideas; The Book as Virtual Reality; The Book as Cinematic Space; The Book as Recombinant Structure; The Book as Ephemeral; The Book as Mute Object -- 4. THE BOOK AS INTERFACE; Talking Books; Digital Affordances; Project Gutenberg (E-texts and E-books); The Internet Archive; Google Books; E-readers; Bookish Paratexts. |
| Contents | Interactivity and the Digital Book; Colophon or Incipit? -- CHRONOLOGY; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FURTHER READING AND WRITING; Further Reading; Further Writing; INDEX; ABOUT AUTHOR. |
| Abstract | The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 0262535416 9780262535410 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780262346887 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0262346885 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 10631 MIT Press |
| Stock number | 9780262346887 MIT Press |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |