Paper: paging through history

Prologue: The technological fallacy

Being human

The moths that circle a Chinese candle

The Islamic birth of literacy

And where is Xátiva?

Europe between two felts

Making words soar

The art of printing

Out from Mainz

Tenochtitlán and the blue-eyed devil

The trumpet call

Rembrandt's discovery

The traitorous corruption of England

Papering independence

Diderot's promise

Invitation from a wasp

Advantages in the head

To die like a gentleman

Return to Asia

Epilogue: change

Appendix: Timeline.