“ There’s an excellent book titled What Jane Austen Ate and Dickens Knew that goes into all the nitty-gritty background: how much was rent, how much did bread cost; if someone has an income of 500 pounds, is that a lot or a little? But it’s a good thing that this information is packaged up in a separate book, not embedded into my copies of Dickens’ books. But if someone could figure out the right way to build this kind of reading experience in a way that wasn’t intrusive, that would be really good.
Mike Loukides, contributing to a discussion on the O’Reilly Radar
1 year ago
