# A History of Reading

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- Book: [A History of Reading](https://www.bookquiver.com/alberto-manguel/a-history-of-reading) ([A History of Reading.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alberto-manguel/a-history-of-reading.md))
- Authors: [Alberto Manguel](https://www.bookquiver.com/alberto-manguel)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-671-3
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2014-08-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A book for book lovers by a true lover of books! At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, and at...