Primera edición en alemán: Weiße Magie © Carl Hanser Verlag München 2012.
Edición en inglés © Polity Press, 2014.
Reimpreso en 2015.

Thanks viii -- Prologue: The Microbe Experiment ix --
PART ONE: The Diffusion of Paper in Europe 1 -- CHAPTER 1 Leaves from Samarkand 3 -- 1.1 The Arab Intermediate Realm 3 -- 1.2 Calligraphy and the Cairo Wastepaper Basket 10 -- 1.3 In Scheherazade’s World 13 -- 1.4 Timur and Suleika 17 -- CHAPTER 2 The Rustling Grows Louder 22 -- 2.1 The European Paper Mill Boom 22 -- 2.2 Paper, Scholars, and Playing Cards 26 -- 2.3 The Rise of the File: Paper Kings, Chanceries, and Secretaries 31 -- 2.4 The Merchant of Genoa and His Silent Partner 37 -- 2.5 Ragpickers, Writers, and the Pulpit 46 -- CHAPTER 3 The Universal Substance 52 -- 3.1 Marshall McLuhan and the Pantagruelion of Rabelais 52 -- 3.2 Harold Innis, the Postal System, and Mephisto’s Scrap 61 -- 3.3 The World in a Page: Watermarks, Formats, Colors 70 --

PART TWO: Behind the Type Area 79 -- CHAPTER 1 The Printed and the Unprinted 81 -- 1.1 The Pitfalls of a Formula: “From Script to Print” 81 -- 1.2 The White Page 85 -- 1.3 “Found among the Papers ...” 89 -- CHAPTER 2 Adventurers and Paper 94 -- 2.1 Don Quixote, the Print Shop, and the Pen 94 -- 2.2 Picaresque Paper: Simplicius Simplicissimus and the Schermesser 99 -- 2.3 Robinson’s Journal, Ink, and Time 104 -- CHAPTER 3 Transparent Typography 108 -- 3.1 The Epistolary Novel’s Mimicry of Letter Paper 108 -- 3.2 Laurence Sterne, the Straight Line, and the Marbled Page 115 -- 3.3 The Fragmentation of the Printed Page: Jean Paul, Lichtenberg, and Excerpts 119 --

PART THREE: The Great Expansion 127 -- CHAPTER 1 The Demons of the Paper Machine 129 -- 1.1 The Mechanization of Sheet-Making 129 -- 1.2 The Loom of Time, the French Revolution, and Credit 140 -- 1.3 Balzac, Journalism, and the Paper Scheme in Lost Illusions 152 -- 1.4 The Secrets of the Scriveners: Charles Dickens and Mr. Nemo 163 -- 1.5 Foolscap and Factory Workers: Herman Melville and the Paper Machine 168 -- CHAPTER 2 Newsprint and the Emergence of the Popular Press 180 -- 2.1 The Boundless Resource Base 180 -- 2.2 The Newspaper, the Price of Paper, and the Patrioteer 189 -- 2.3 Émile Zola, the Petit Journal, and the Dreyfus Affair 196 -- CHAPTER 3 Illuminated Inner Worlds 201 -- 3.1 Wilhelm Dilthey, Historism, and Literary Estates 201 -- 3.2 Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the Autograph Hunt 207 -- 3.3 Laterna Magica: Paper and Interiors 215 -- CHAPTER 4 The Inventory of Modernity 226 -- 4.1 Typewriter Paper, Deckle Edges, and White Space 226 -- 4.2 James Joyce, Newsprint, and Shears 236 --
4.3 William Gaddis, the Paperwork Crisis, and Punch Cards 242 -- 4.4 Rainald Goetz, the Mystic Writing Pad, and the Smell of Paper 249 -- EPILOGUE -- The Analog and the Digital 253 -- Notes 265 -- Bibliography 274 -- Image Credits 292 -- Index of Names 293 --