Letterpress on handmade paper.

An early form in the Reading Room series, this book aims to depict the experience of being overloaded with information. The book beckons you in with its first line - “Trust me, the best way is to-” before inundating the reader with stark black markings produced from printing the back sides of lead type. The book only contains one other legible line, to end the mass of markings - “Got it?”

Lead type printed courtesy of the Globe Collection & Press at MICA.