The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Culture by Sven Birkerts

The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Culture

Sven Birkerts

231 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction essays technology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In The Gutenberg Elegies, nationally renowned critic Sven Birkerts powerfully argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word. A...

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reflective: 75%

challenging: 50%

informative: 50%

sad: 25%


Pace

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75% of readers chose slow
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