The case for books…
Thanks to Robert Darnton, the director of Harvard’s libraries, for a book about books: The Case for Books
As he wrote in Publisher’s Weekly last week: “I’ve been invited to so many conferences on ‘The Death of the Book’ during that past decade that I think books must be very much alive. The death notices remind me of my favorite graffiti, inscribed in the men’s room of the Firestone Library at Princeton University:
God is dead. –Nietzsche
Then, added in another hand:
Nietzsche is dead. –God
The book is not dead. In fact, the world is producing more books than ever before…”