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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.
#books #libraries #reading #bookstodon
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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 1931Pittsburgh Review of Books
Libby Isn't Your Library. It's a Private Equity Asset.
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I went to do a search on DuckDuckGo, and it displayed a message that it had blocked 72 tracking attempts from Libby over the past hour.
Which had me wondering: who owns this app???
OverDrive owns Libby. And OverDrive is owned by KKR, the same private-equity firm that owns Simon & Schuster.
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Libby Isn't Your Library. It's a Private Equity Asset.
The app most patrons think IS their library is owned by KKR, the same private-equity firm that owns Simon & Schuster. One owner, both sides of the library ebook transaction. Here's the ownership record and what it means.Sam Chada (Overdue Conversations)
