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Mar 19th 2007
We are lucky. We live in an age when books are no longer confined to the scriptorium. Books are free from the locks and chains that used to hold them to the shelves. Now a paperback copy can keep you company at the beach or on a blanket at the park. Your laptop, even your PDA can hold books at the ready. Printed books, audio books, digital books, hardcover, soft cover, no cover… you name it. We’re surrounded by them. Awash in a sea of them. Estimates are that 150,000 titles are published in the US every year. With so many books, how do you find a good one? I hope this site will give you the starting point for your search. Not only finding them, but ideas for keeping them in your personal library.
Keep your books close to you and smell them often. – Ben Fenton
In 1450, all of western Europe’s books were hand-copied and amounted to no more than are in a modern public library. By 1500, printed books numbered in the millions. Johann Gutenberg’s invention of movable type ignited the explosion of art, literature, and scientific research that accelerated the Renaissance and led directly to the Modern Age. — John Man The Gutenberg Revolution
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