Article: the book: historical journeys of an "tireless traveler"

Talking about the Book on the World Day dedicated to it is, above all, talking about an object that unequivocally characterizes the culture of Western societies, essential, throughout the centuries as a privileged vehicle of Knowledge, a support for cultural content both in the physical form we have come to know and, in the virtual form, as more recently new technologies have enabled.
We therefore propose a temporal journey that will briefly traverse the history of the Book, in the characteristics of its material expression and in the potentialities of its digital expression, framing it as an object (or container) and also as an expression of thought (or content).
Text by FERNANDA MARIA CAMPOS
Assistant Director, National Library of Portugal

Source: Solidarity City Magazine no. 24
Edition: SCML, 2010