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Names: Dietz, Laura, author.
Title: E-books and ‘real books’ : digital reading and the experience of bookness / Laura Dietz, University College London.
Description: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024025144 (print) | LCCN 2024025145 (ebook) | ISBN 9781009490764 (hardback) | ISBN 9781009490771 (paperback) | ISBN 9781009490795 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Electronic books. | Books and reading–History–21st century. | Reading, Psychology of.
Classification: LCC Z1033.E43 D54 2024 (print) | LCC Z1033.E43 (ebook) | DDC 028–dc23/eng/20240710
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