The bound book, claims Birkerts, "is the ideal vehicule for the written word" and print, unlike any other medium, "exalts the word, fixing it into permanence".
This same character of permanence of the printed word provides society with a tool for preserving and passing on its subjective essence: "our entire collective, subjective history -the soul of our societal body-is encoded in print. Is encoded, and has for countless generations been passed along by way of the word, mainly through books".
Books, argues Birkerts, provide narratives that help us to understand the "forces impinging on our lives". They also provide us with "a space for reflection", a "kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere" and with experiences which we can use "as a basis for interpreting the behaviour of people around us".
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