My library is where I go to find my books. It is also the place where I go to remember for the memories of my life are tied to my books.
In Defense of the Memory Theater
By Nathan Schneider What concerns me about the literary apocalypse that everybody now expects—the at least partial elimination of paper books in favor of digital alternatives—is not chiefly the books themselves, but the bookshelf. My fear is for the eclectic, personal collections that we bookish people assemble over the course of our lives, as well as for their grander, public step-siblings. I fear for our memory theaters.
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