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A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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This Craft of Reading 
Book titles can be misleading because they work under the assumption that hundreds of pages can be summed up in a handful of words. That is why many titles try not so much to be precise as to be approximate, and not so much to be approximate as to be memorable. Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading is a good example. While it is, in a way, a history, it is equally a collection of essays, an anthology of fragments, a portrait of its author, an anti-history, and an amusing miscellany of erudition. At heart,... more info
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For anybody who has been graced to read to live, and others too! 
When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in a white man's prison for being black he acknowledged that books kept him sane. When Somerset Maugham went travelling through Malaya early last century his companions were books. Any reader can identify with these two quite different gentlemen - Virginia Woolf wrote whilst at school "I have sometimes dreamt that when the day of judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards - their crowns, their laurels,... more info
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Reading Is More Than Pleasure. 
When I chose this 'history' at a book sale, I was told it's a textbook. It does give several theories about how we are able to read, but we are not told what to read. We are what we read. "You should make it a habit, when reading books, to attend more to the sense than to the words, to concentrate on the fruit rather than the foliage" was the advice from the 13th Century as it should be today as well.
Writing requires a reader. Many authors have public appearances to read from their works. It was... more info
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As a textbook
"A History of Reading" was actually assigned as the textbook for one of my college classes, and as such it's pretty interesting. Manguel does a lot of in-depth and unique research concerning all (or at least most, I'm not finished w/ it yet) aspects of reading from how reading came about to how books were formed to what it means to read. Had I run across this item on my own, I'd still think it quite interesting.
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