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“reading is at the beginning of the social contract”

Alberto Manguel

The Last Page, p. 7.
A History of Reading (1996)

“In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.”

Alberto Manguel

The Shape of The Book, p. 135.
A History of Reading (1996)

“It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. Those books may no longer be available for consultation, they may exist only in the vague memory of a reader or in the vaguer-still memory of tradition and legend, but they have acquired a kind of immortality.”

Alberto Manguel

A History of Reading (1996)
Source: The Library at Night, p. 123