Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age [Russian]

by Ann M. Blair

ENG: The internet and digital technologies have generated a flood of texts and widespread worries about information overload. But this phenomenon is not unique to our age. Already centuries ago scholars complained about an overabundance of books, especially in the wake of the invention of printing in mid-15th century Europe. Blair studies the remedies that the learned devised to cope with that explosion of texts, notably by making summaries and excerpts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Russian
• ISBN: B0CVMTCNM8
• ISBN13: 9798887194271
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"