Sven Birkerts's 1994 book The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age has been rereleased with a new introduction and afterword by Birkerts. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in technology's influence on culture and books in particular. The book is part manifesto and part literary memoir. Parts of the original material were somewhat tied to the time they were written (the parts about hypertext and CD-ROMs, for example) so the new sections were a good idea and should attract new readers.
I wanted to link to the publisher's web page but it appears to be down at the moment (oh, the irony).
Hah! You're funny! Yes, ironic indeed!
Posted by: Rob Gilpatric | Monday, December 11, 2006 at 10:33 AM