Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers Subclass_Others - Electrical & Electronics At a cocktail party the

At a cocktail party the night before the Trooping the Colour parade for the Queen’s 90th birthday

she worked out general theories of happiness

All her grandma had to worry about was sewing dresses and planning dinner parties

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Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers Subclass_Others - Electrical & Electronics At a cocktail party thePortable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium's worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small, Smith reveals that, as much as their contents, it is books' physical form their 'bookhood' that lends them their distinctive and sometimes dangerous magic. From the Diamond Sutra to Jilly Cooper's Riders,