book culture
Reading community ethos
Book culture encompasses the social practices, values, and institutions surrounding books as objects and reading as activity.
It includes publishing, collecting, literary communities, bookstores, libraries, and the rituals of reading itself.
The term often carries nostalgia for print in an increasingly digital age: Book culture is dying, they say, but independent bookstores are thriving.
It can also describe a society's relationship to literacy and literature more broadly.
- reading listCurated book recommendations
- printingReproducing text mechanically
- literacyAbility to read, write
- novelNew and unusual
- literary fictionProse emphasizing craft and depth
beach read · silent reading · page turner · library · bookmark · dog-eared pages · poetry · typesetting · small press · literary awards · bibliophile · annotation · archive · marginalia · intellectualism · rereading · education · prose
- literacy topicsliteracy, literacy rate, literacy education, reading, writing skills
- reading artreading rooms, scripture reading, study rooms, letter reading
- Swedish LiteratureAstrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking, Bellman, Emil, Uppsala
- literary librariessecret archives, hidden knowledge, ancient texts, dusty shelves, reading rooms
book cultureoral culture
Society transmitting knowledge verbally
oral tradition · folk culture · film culture · meme culture · illiteracy
book, culture, books, booked, booking, bookish, booklet, bookstore, handbook