Paper was never simply a writing surface, but a complicated substance that folded itself into the fabric of culture and consciousness.

Gill Partington
Gill Partington researches and publishes on contemporary book cultures, unorthodox pages, and deviant readers. She was the Cambridge Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2018–19 and is now Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, on the Wellcome-funded project Indexofevidence.org. She also coedits Inscription: The Journal of Material Text—Theory, Practice, History.