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Winner of the All-Ukrainian rating Book of the Year 2020. Nomination "Horizons", popular science literature

The advent of the digital age has caused panic among book lovers who fear the disappearance of a whole layer of culture that almost defines humanity as such; it is about the ability to read and the ability to do it in the most ideal way. But the aura of sacredness has only recently surrounded the printed objects we value so much. Their story is the story of the onset of modernity, in which books have always been at the forefront, Leah Price argues in her insightful study. And what we are mourning is rather an illusory ideal of reader immersion, a kind of "golden age of reading" that most likely never really existed.