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"Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."— Baltimore Sun On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and... read more
First Sentence
When I first went to work in Harvard's Widener Library, I immediately made my first mistake: I tried to read the books.
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- Matthew Battles (Author)
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