Really neat article about reading in the 19th century where "By the nineteenth century, readers were feeling lost in a sea of print, and though this feeling was not entirely new, it was exacerbated by new print technologies and cheap reprints flooding the literary marketplace." #reading
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/choice-reading?ref=the-browser
Lapham’s QuarterlyChoice Reading | Denise GiganteNineteenth-century New York City was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia.