Paper

<p>A witty personal and entertaining reflection on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance.</p> <p>Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world.</p> <p>Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell their physical counterparts. Still there are some uses of paper that seem unlikely to change – Christmas won’t be Christmas without wrapped presents or crackers. And the language of paper – documents files and folders – has survived digitisation.</p> <p>In Paper: An Elegy Ian Sansom builds a museum of paper and explores its paradox – its vulnerability and durability. This book is a timely meditation on the very paper it’s printed on.</p>