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Other ways to use a book

Harvard literary scholar Leah Price thinks you can learn a lot from not reading

By Craig Fehrman

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  May 06, 2012

Star Harvard English professor Leah Price has made her name focusing on an unusual aspect of the books she studies: not the writing, but everything else. And to her, a key divide between the book as object and the book as something to be read happened as long ago as the Victorian era.

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