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Originally published 30 November 2010 Genre History | 4/5 Goodreads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 2010) is a bestselling book by American author Ann M. Blair. The book largely deals with the concept of information overload.
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Summary
The book essentially claims that the feeling of information overload is in no way unique to the digital age. Instead it has existed since antiquity.
Reception
The book was declared by The New Yorker to be one of the best books of 2011. It was also praised by the Washington Post, Rorotoko, and Times Higher Education.
References
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