Reading for September 20: Robert Darnton, “What is the History of Books?” (Reader 9-26)
If you haven’t bought the textbook yet, see: http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3403038/darnton_historybooks.pdf?sequence=2

Reading for September 27
Thomas R. Adams & Nicolas Barker, “A New Model for the Study of the Book” (Reader 47-64)
The second map is missing in our book, but you will find it on page 503 of http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3403039/darnton_revisited.pdf?sequence

Reading for October 4
T.H. Howard-Hill, “Why Bibliography Matters” (Companion 9-20) and D.H. McKenzie, “The Book as an Expressive Form” (39-45)

Reading for October 11: Martin Andrews, “The Importance of Ephemera” (Companion 434-450)

Readings for October 18: Walter Ong, “Orality and Literacy: Writing restructures consciousness” (Reader 134-146) and Ong’s missing section “Many Scripts but only One Alphabet”

Readings for October 25 and November 1: Scott B. Noegel, “Text, Script, and Media” (Reader 125-133) and your chosen text on early writing (Companion 67-176)

Reading for November 8: Rowan Watson, “Some Non-textual Uses of Books” (Companion 480-492)

Reading for November 15: Marcel Thomas, “Manuscripts” (Reader 147-156)

Reading for January 10: Robert Darnton, “Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose,” in The Great Cat Massacre (Google book or library e-book 9-29)