Finished reading "Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading" by Isabel Hofmeyr.
This scholarly book discusses Mahatma Gandhi's experiments with reading, writing and printing while he lived in South Africa between 1893 and 1914.
It focuses on a multi-lingual newspaper Gandhi started, INDIAN OPINION, as well as pamphlets and periodicals he wrote and produced in South Africa. One of them, HIND SWARAJ or INDIAN SELF RULE, gets particular attention.
Central to all these undertakings is a small partly manual, partly mechanical printing press operating under a grand name, International Printing Press.
Together, the press and publications allowed Gandhi's political work and ideas to spread widely outside South Africa so that before he returned to India his prestige had preceded him.
