id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15296 Ryan, Michael Kilgour, Frederick G. The Evolution of the Book. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1998. 180p. $35, alk. paper (ISBN: 0-19-511859-6). LC 97-14430. 1999-05-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1977 97 55 Moreover, Kilgour ’s “bullet train” approach to the history of book technologies is an odd reprise of a style of history writing that I had thought 296 College & Research Libraries May 1999 long gone. Boundaries become more explicit in the third part of the collection where research on local knowledge is brought into juxta­ position with other knowledge systems. cache/crl-15296.pdf txt/crl-15296.txt