Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles

Library: An Unquiet History kicks off by quoting a passage by Thomas Wolfe from Of Time and The River in which a man who works in a large library is beset by book panic, realizing that no matter how fast he reads he will never be able to read all the books in the library. It then goes on to tell the history of libraries (in the sense of collections of books that may or may … Continue reading Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles →