These are books I've been reading about old media precedents to new media forms. The Smith & Marx anthology on technological determinism isn’t explicitly about this sort of thing, but I figure determinism factors into this particular interest of mine. I've also ordered Lisa Gitelman's new book, Always Already New. Is there anything else I should be looking at?

(Of course, there's history of the book and new media theory and orality/literacy and digital texts and on and on. I've got a lot of that stuff around here. What I'm looking for right now are materials that deal specifically with old media precedents.)