What looks like good future reads for the BookishBookClub? These! Suggestions more than welcome (in fact, deeply encouraged!) from BBC memmbers
non-fiction wishlist for BookishBookClub Public
Created and curated by Bookish Book Club Convener
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Paper machines : about cards & catalogs, 1548-1929 by Markus Krajewski
4 stars
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Today on almost …
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Speaking Volumes by David Pearson
A fascinating catalog that analyzes books as historical objects.
Scholars increasingly recognize that the cultural and research value of books …
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Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day by Barbara Heritage, Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day offers a carefully curated overview of how books have …
Sarah says: I haven't read yet but I hear rumors that it does a decent job of including non-western textual objects and that there are lots of pictures
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Organizing Women by Christine Pawley
In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than …
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Old Books and New Histories by Leslie Howsam
5 stars
Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are …
Sarah says: if we wanted to think about “book history” as a discipline, this is a great short book that thinks about how historians, literary scholars, and bibliographers all approach book history with different questions and methodologies
