Book Report: 😂 Face with Tears of Joy 😂

It's a history of emoji. Quickly moves past early pictographic writing on up to little pictures on early Japanese pagers and smartphones. I was kinda famililar with a lot of this history. For a fews years, Unicode emoji changes would make the news; I remember reading about such things at the time. But reading about them all together shows some trends that weren't so obvious year-by-year. Reading the first couple of chapters, I was kinda worried. I read this as an e-book. The first few bits talk about ancient pictographic writing systems. The book talks about various specific characters… which my e-book reader's font apparently doesn't support. So the book would say something like "The ancient Sumerian squiqqle П which evolved into a similar Hebrew character () and as well as an Egyptian glyph (◻)" and I couldn't make sense of it until I realized it was failing to display not-often-used-and-thus-omitted-from-the-font symbols. On the one hand, it's kind of a shame: I bet the author had…