Is there anything more delightfully meta than books about books? Sometimes, as Marshall McLuhan (or Cosmo Kramer) could tell us, the medium really is the message. In my book about books, The Idea Machine, I argue that books are humanity’s first great information technology—an invention that hasn’t simply preserved and spread ideas but has transformed ho…
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My Favorite Books about Books: A Reading List for True Bibliophiles
