Name: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
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Author: Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 9780375726217

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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

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Physical Book

Publisher

Vintage

Author

Nicholson Baker

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0375726217

ISBN13

9780375726217

Synopsis "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper "

The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.

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