Two years of discarded library books
The Public Library of American Public Library Deaccession tracks nonfiction books withdrawn from library collections over two years. (Via.)
The Public Library of American Public Library Deaccession tracks nonfiction books withdrawn from library collections over two years. (Via.)
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“I haven’t met a so-called experimental writer who likes the term,” says Lydia Davis. “‘Experiment’ carries the suggestion that it may not work.”
I can’t decide whether Mark Twain would be amused by or disgusted with the metaphorical use to which Tom Sawyer’s whitewashing is being put in the digital age.