A Whisper in the Night

[ecosophia]

Buy physical books now. Great ones, good ones, bad ones, ones you happen to like. Store them safely as you would treasures. They are. Some will become unavailable soon, I suspect, for reasons that may not be stated candidly. If I’m wrong, what have you lost?

We, the library

— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) February 12, 2021

This seems uncomfortably appropriate to me just now...

Comments

Save the books

[brenainn]

I've been doing just that, since they started cancelling even Dr. Seuss books. I've also begun downloading digital copies of classical works in the public domain and printing them off on my home office Brother printer. I make the text "bible print small" and can fit a fair number of works onto a few hundred pages. I've figuring out how to bind them myself. Gods only know how many books will be made to disappear by the loons now in charge.

Re: Save the books

[chaosadventurer]

I periodically run through the Gutenberg project at http://www.gutenberg.org/ and other places for more to download and save, with multiple off-line copies.
With my current space limitations, printing (laser on acid free paper) is for just the most precious of them at the current time.