On the inner history of reading

There's an interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the growing interest in, and research into, the reading experiences of the past. It's about 'the hunt for evidence of how people over time have interacted with books, newspapers, and other printed material'. Future researchers in this area are going to be glad of today's book-bloggers and other bloggers, as well as of Twitter and Facebook. Just one more way in which the internet has improved the world. (Via.)