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Title: The Book on the Bookshelf
Author: Henry Petroski
Narrator: John Lescault
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
Release date: 10-17-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Words, Language & Grammar
Publisher's Summary:
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn’t. As a result, listeners are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Petroski takes us into the pre-Gutenberg world, when books were so scarce they were chained to lecterns for security.