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« Ghost Reader? | Main | New 'social' dictionary » Monday, February 26, 2007"Ancient" booksJosh, I came across a rant by a classics professors today that chimes well with that bibliophile blogger's observation about "Ghost Rider." Undergraduates, he complained, may read (sometimes) -- but they're ignorant about books as physical objects: They ... believe that something printed in 1865 or 1945 is "really old" (I wish I had a florin for every student who has said like words to me in breathless astonishment while holding some frankly unremarkable volume from [the library's] stacks as though it were a Hittite tablet) ... Posted by Christopher Shea at 10:42 PM
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