Biblonia

Biblonia

Hit and miss

biblonia
Mar 08, 2020
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The way I see it, the heart of our age has missed a beat. And that was not out of love, but out of haste.

Two thousand years ago, nearly no-one could afford a private library. People could amass a few scrolls, volumes, and scraps of important documents, but the number of books one could own pulled with the force of gravity towards 1. The behemoth-states …

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