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'An outstanding piece of scholarship that holds books and reading up to the light to see their refracting and reflecting surfaces. The power of the explanation resides in its understated erudition and it is with warmth and compassion that Angélica builds out her frameworks. As with the best scholarly works, it is a book that will gently shift how you see the world in general, and reading in particular.'
Nick Prior, Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Edinburgh
'I will take from The Love of Books the valuable lesson - both as salve to my younger self and as an important reminder to the scholar I am today - that joy, pleasure, and attachment are worth following. For any social scientists interested in literature, attachment, and media, this book comes highly recommended.'
Adora Svitak, Cultural Sociology
Introduction
1 In the presence of books and books’ iconic power
2 Reading as action
3 The gifts of reading
4 Remediation and attachment in the reading of e-books
5 Four readers
Epilogue
Methodological Appendices (I, II, III)
Notes
Bibliography
Index