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The future of books that no one is reading.

Posted on 02Dec0702Dec07 by jessamyn

BLDGBLOG, a true gem of original content about buildings and land use and culture, has a long lovely post on the future warehouse of unwanted books. Starting with a description of the British Library’s giant new warehouse, it goes on to talk about other text repositories from histories real and imagined. Are these warehouses libraries?

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