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The Great Digitization and the Quest to Know Everything
The Great Digitization and the Quest to Know Everything, Examines the pitfalls, perils, and promises offered by the digitization of books
• Reveals the danger digitized books pose to the very idea of free reading
• Poses the questions society should be asking itself before heedlessly embracing this brav, The Great Digitization and the Quest to Know Everything has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • The Great Digitization and the Quest to Know Everything
  • Written by author Lucien X. Polastron
  • Published by Inner Traditions Bear & Company, March 2009
  • Examines the pitfalls, perils, and promises offered by the digitization of books • Reveals the danger digitized books pose to the very idea of "free" reading • Poses the questions society should be asking itself before heedlessly embracing this brav
  • The Great Digitization and the Quest to Know Everything examines the pitfalls and promises offered by the digitization of books. Author Lucien Polastron reveals the danger digitized books pose to the very idea of "free" reading, as digitization c
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Introduction Finding Information or Funding a National Library? 1

1 BnF versus BNF 8

2 For Wells Is Not the Plural of Orwell 15

3 Geneva: World Capital 19

4 Quick, Quick 23

5 Volutes 27

6 A Digital Coronary 34

7 When the Book Is Too Highly Concentrated, the Purpose It Serves Is Easily Forgotten 37

8 The Pixel Coming to Paper's Aid 47

9 Is This Already the Post-Google Era? 50

10 But Why the Devil Do We Need Libraries? 54

11 Concordant and Discordant Clues 59

12 The Big picture 63

13 First Trials 72

14 Burning Stakes 76

15 Advent Eve 79

16 Muta Solitudo 83

17 An All-Horizons Inventory 87

18 The Future at the Portal 94

19 Tomorrow's Readers 101

20 Last Books! Last Books! Closing Time! 105

21 Paper Leaves by the Door and Comes Back through the Window 114

22 Library, Arise! 117

23 Striped Uniforms 121

24 Shrouds 123

25 Purse Strings and Police Cordons 127

26 Smocks 132

27 Against the Grain 141

Appendix 1 Libraries and Digitization 144

Appendix 2 Is the Library at a Turning Point? 151

Notes 162

Bibliography 172

Index 175


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