Voracious reader, book collector, and scholar Ignacio Sánchez Prado writes about how he began collecting books when growing up in Mexico, and why it was and is so important to him to develop his working library. He takes an interesting look at the future or not of such libraries and of how they relate to scholarship.
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A Library on the Eve of Packing - Pittsburgh Review of Books

I hope a bibliophile like me can be forgiven to write an essay on the eve of my library being packed. Since the publication of Walter Benjamin’s 1931

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