{"id":4845,"date":"2016-08-27T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T23:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2016-08-27T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T23:36:24","slug":"from-the-bbc-the-history-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2016\/08\/27\/from-the-bbc-the-history-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"From the BBC: The History of the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2016\/08\/6f3badaff1b38bfd6c6715885dd8dd74-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2016\/08\/6f3badaff1b38bfd6c6715885dd8dd74-1-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"6f3badaff1b38bfd6c6715885dd8dd74 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4846 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2016\/08\/6f3badaff1b38bfd6c6715885dd8dd74-1-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2016\/08\/6f3badaff1b38bfd6c6715885dd8dd74-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20160822-the-mysterious-ancient-origins-of-the-book\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20160822-the-mysterious-ancient-origins-of-the-book<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The book is changing. Electronic books, or ebooks, are more portable than their paper counterparts, capable of being carried in their hundreds on a single reader or tablet. Thousands more are just a click away. It can be argued that ebooks are more robust than paper ones: an ebook reader can be stolen or dropped in the bath, but the books on it are stored safely in the cloud, waiting to be downloaded onto a new device. It is not too much to say that books and reading are in the throes of a revolution . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20160822-the-mysterious-ancient-origins-of-the-book\" target=\"_blank\">the BBC website<\/a>. A tip of the hat to Prof. Hamill for bringing this article to our attention.<\/p>\n<p><em>The graphic at top comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/bookhistory.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">History of the Book webpage<\/a>, hosted by Harvard University. Click here to visit that resource page, and, if book history is something you would like to learn more about, consider signing up for Harvard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bookhistory.harvard.edu\/resources#widget-5\" target=\"_blank\">History of the Book mailing list<\/a> for Boston-area events.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20160822-the-mysterious-ancient-origins-of-the-book: The book is changing. Electronic books, or ebooks, are more portable than their paper counterparts, capable of being carried in their hundreds on a single reader or tablet. Thousands more are just a click away. It can be argued that ebooks are more robust than paper ones: an ebook reader can be stolen or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48628,3715],"tags":[428,649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4847,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}