pickThis was really interesting and I learned a lot. I maybe didn't like it quite as much as Salt, which I read years ago, but it's whetted my appetite for similar books. I think I'll get Cod next.
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Paper: Paging Through History | 
pickThis was really interesting and I learned a lot. I maybe didn't like it quite as much as Salt, which I read years ago, but it's whetted my appetite for similar books. I think I'll get Cod next.
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 205 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram
Is it weird that I'm so excited to start an audiobook about paper?
I really enjoy this author's book about Salt. I have really high hopes for this one.
pickAnother nice reading about history by Mark Kurlansky. As for the others similar books I read, Cod and Salt, this book is fabulous reading about paper, writing and arts, from the very early civilizations to nowadays. It is amazing to read about how many are still making paper by hand in various special ways for different color taste and use. Very well referenced and with an interesting Timeline annexed to it. #2019
PS: I have read it on my iPad...
Organized my book shelves today. Now reading this great book. A little dry at times but otherwise a fascinating history of how paper changed the world. 📚😍🤓
#TBRtemptation post 5! For two millennia, paper has been a simple but essential piece of human technology. Many aspects are looked at. History's greatest press-run, Mao's Quotations; Leonardo da Vinci left only 15 paintings but thousands of works on paper; the American colonies would not boycott paper during their resistance; from Socrates and Plato denouncing the written word to the digital print of today. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
Books with one word title display I made at work.
For a book nerd, reading about the history of paper is an emotional experience. Love you, Paper! ...no offense, e-books and audiobooks. You're good, too. Seriously, this is a great, very readable book. Mark Kurlansky is my slightly more serous Mary Roach.
Hudson news has something I actually want to read. Was not expecting that when I walked in. Gonna have to put it on the Christmas Wish List.
Am enjoying this sweeping history of paper, a commodity that we take vey much for granted. At a certain moment in time it nevertheless was rather scarce.
I would read anything Kurlansky wrote, but I'm extra excited about his latest. I love paper and am looking forward to learning both the past and the future of this most important invention. Don't take away my paper, journals, and print books!
