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| | #58 "Double Fold" by Nicholson Baker
This book germinated as an article on the charm of library card catalogs. It was born when a guy named Blackbeard clued Baker to the idea that libraries were converting collections of classic newspapers to microfilm and trashing the originals, all that ... ... it. I have heard of Nicholson Baker; looking him up, I see that I have read his book Vox and the excerpt, I guess, of Double Fold in The New Yorker. It'll be interesting to see if I like Human Smoke. ... simple, there are layers and layers in this book, about Scottishness and relationships and music and all.
58. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker
As intended, this book got me worked up into such righteous fury I could barely keep reading. I ... ... Contemporary Fiction
022 Administration of the Physical Plant - The Book on the Bookshelf
025 Library Operations - Double Fold
027 General libraries - Library: An Unquiet History
028 Reading, Use of Other Information Media - Reading Memoirs Go Here. Including but not limited to ... ... shlist.
Anyway, here's some more books I've found. Not all are microhistories, but a lot are.
025 Library Operations - Double Fold
034 General encyclopedic works in French, Provencal, Catalan - Enlightening the World: Encyclopédie, the book that changed the course of history
154 Subcon ... Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Nicholson Baker The book, Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper by Nicholson Baker is quite good. In some cases he overstates the case. It really is true that some books and newspapers were printed on exceptionally poor quality paper, and it is a good idea to get them into a different media, so ... Regarding #15 and Nicholson Baker's Double Fold: When this first came out, it caused a relatively big uproar from archivists/librarians who strongly disagreed w/Baker's arguments ... I don't have any expertise on the matter, but you might want to take the book w/a few grains of salt.
I ... ... and the uproar caused by Starr trying to get records of books bought by some of the people involved.
I finished Double Fold and though it was the last thing in the world I expected it provided one belly-laugh. A Library of Congress staffer was going thru the stacks and found a book ... I'm about 3/4 through Double Fold by Nicholson Baker. He goes a bit over the top but makes some strong points about trying to preserve paper 'reading' materials. Some of the subjects he mentions are new to me but some I was familiar with from other books about books. ... all its unwanted books into a skip, which had me ranting for the rest of the day. And I know that's not uncommon - read Double Fold by Nicholson Baker if you want to be shocked. I also think libraries should *never* throw away their last copy of a book, even if it means building more storage ... One of my professors in library school wrote a direct rebuttal to Double Fold called Vandals in the Stacks. You might like getting the archivist's response. It is much more reasoned and calm. I just finished reading Nicholson Baker's bombshell Double Fold, right after Henry Petroski's The Book on the Bookshelf, with the effect of casting the entire reformatting effort as a devastating break with the beautiful history of book care and connoisseurship. I find Baker's concerns ...
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