It’s long but if you have 24 minutes this student documentary’s a pleasing panegyric to the printed book. And guess which publisher makes an appearance at about 13 minutes in?

‘The whole tone of a book disappears in an ebook. Pick up a paperback Penguin of a certain age and Jan Tschicold’s hand is in there specifying the type, you know? And you can feel it – it shows.’

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