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Andrew Piper

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I grew up liking books but loving computers. While I have fond memories of reading books, I have even fonder ones of going to computer camp, programming my TRS-80 and playing Pong. I belong to that first generation of children who grew up using home computers. I think it was this combination that led to my interest in the history of books and literature, to think about the way technologies change how we read and think. I am now a professor of literature at McGill University.

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“We may need to put down the book from time to time, but we should make sure not to let the computer become the new book. The universal medium, like the universal library, is a dream that does more harm than good.”
Andrew Piper, Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times

“Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse.”
Andrew Piper, Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times

“Reading is never purely an act of isolation. When we read, we enter into a world of commonality, whether of language, story, or material object. Reading socializes. “To us these marvelous tales have been told,” begins the great medieval German epic The Nibelungenlied.”
Andrew Piper, Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times

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“Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse.”
Andrew Piper, Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times

“We may need to put down the book from time to time, but we should make sure not to let the computer become the new book. The universal medium, like the universal library, is a dream that does more harm than good.”
Andrew Piper, Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times

“It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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