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Double fold

Double fold

by Nicholson Baker

"Since the 1950s, our country's libraries have followed a policy of "destroying to preserve": They have methodically dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers, cut up hundreds of thousands of so-called brittle books, and replaced them with microfilmed copies - copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate ...

Publisher

Random House

Format

370 pages

ISBN

0375504443

Language

English

Features

Full color, 370 pages

Genres

Newspapers, Libraries, Paper, Conservation and restoration, Special collections

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