The New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT, £29.95/$45, ISBN 0262232278 Reviewed by Mike Holderness
MOSTLY, I read the books I review on trains. I half-broke my back schlepping The New Media Reader to Edinburgh: 820 pages of small type are less than 5 Mb of plain text, but it’s about half as heavy as my cheap chunky laptop. Surely they could have fit the book itself into an odd corner of the enclosed CD-ROM’s 650 Mb capacity?
So is The New Media Reader worth the back ache? There are many excellent founding texts, ranging from…
