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Too Many Books

“We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.”

“Too many books” is one old complaint. Historian Adrien Baillet wrote that in 1685. Plummeting book prices is another…

An interesting segment about books on NPR’s On The Media from late November 2009:

(Too bad about the dreadful Moxy Fruvous song)

The transcript is here.

(via Lined & Unlined)