A book for book lovers by a true lover of books!
At one magical instant in your early childhood, theย page of a bookโthat string of confused, alien ciphersโshivered into meaning, and at that moment,ย whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, aย reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguelย moves from this essential moment to explore theย six-thousand-year-old conversation between wordsย and that hero without whom the book would be aย lifeless object: the reader. Manguel brilliantly coversย reading as seduction, as rebellion, and as obsessionย and goes on to trace the quirky and fascinatingย history of the readerโs progress from clay tablet toย scroll, codex to digital.