In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form." - Meaning and context.">
QuotesCosmos
The Shape of The Book, p. 135.
“

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

— Alberto Manguel

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form." in the context of "The Shape of The Book, p. 135." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Quote Image
Source: Wikiquote: "Alberto Manguel" (Quotes, A History of Reading (1996)) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

Tags

#Alberto Manguel#books#proliferation#oldfashioned#technology#statistics#production#computer#affected#cdrom#codex#show
Alberto Manguel

About Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. In 1982 Manguel moved to Toronto, Canada and lived there (with a brief European period) until 2000. He has been a Canadian citizen ever since.