Novelist Nicholson Baker has criticized libraries for destroying these & replacing them with databases
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Searcher's Voice - Don't Burn Books! Burn Librarians!!  According to Mr. Baker's book, librarians have been, at best, criminally ... They have actively and vigorously pursued the goal of destroying books, those ... call the people we serve to evaluate and criticize the outcome of professional conduct. ... of the professionals that serve them and put some trust in their expertise and,...
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Why are libraries destroying books? | Education | The Guardian  Mar 22, 2002 ... Nicholson Baker didn't expect librarians to act like barbarians - but then he ... replaced paper drinking straws with plastic ones: in his first novel, ... ("How could the straw engineers have made so elementary a ... Many British and American libraries, he discovered during his research, were destroying them in...
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Double Fold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in April, 2001. An excerpt appeared in the July 24, 2000 issue of The New Yorker, under the title "Deadline: The Author's Desperate Bid to Save America's Past. ... Baker claims these goals need not conflict: "Why can't we have the benefits...
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper: Nicholson Baker ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. All writers of course love the printed word, but few ... Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, ... Not only has noted novelist Baker (The Mezzanine; Vox; etc.) ... that we must destroy books and newspapers in order, supposedly, to save them.
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker ...  Double Fold has 829 ratings and 94 reviews. Lucy said: DON'T LISTEN TO HIM! Nicholson Baker is NOT a librarian or archivist; he does not understand the m. ... replaced with online databases, and instead they should preserve these hulking ...... The whole point of the book is that the author is pissed off at the destruction of...
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Russell Baker - Wikipedia  Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American writer known for his satirical ... He edited the anthologies The Norton Book of Light Verse (1986) and Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993). ... In 1993, Baker replaced Alistair Cooke as the regular host of the PBS television series Masterpiece Theatre.
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CONELRAD: ATOMIC PLATTERS | Anti-Baez: The Ballad of Janet ...  ... to the two biggest icons of the conservative fringeI LED 3 LIVES author Herbert A. ... In an interview with CONELRAD, David Greenroos recalled that he didn't want his ... Smith helpfully explained that part of Greene's on-air routine was to ..... is still alive but retired from the CACC[5], wrote a doorstop of an autobiography...
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The Semaphore - Telegraph Hill Dwellers  The North Beach library is one of those libraries. There are numerous issues around the North. Beach library plan that many THD members feel very strongly...
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2003 by Angela Y. Davis - collectiveliberation.org  I should not be listed as the sole author of this book, for its ideas reflect various ... the impact of the prison industrial complex on the lives of peoplewithin and.
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Misery: A Novel  Paul Sheldon is a popular writer celebrating the completion of a new book, ... his latest book, where he kills off his popular character, Misery Chastain (a ... He talks about the difference between a hack, a popular writer and a literary .... But what got to me most was the uneven characterization of Annie Wilkes. .... Poor man.
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Miss Hargreaves : Penguin 783: Frank Baker: Amazon.com: Books  Miss Hargreaves : Penguin 783 Mass Market Paperback  1950 ... Author interviews, book reviews, editors picks, and more. .... If you've ever seen her motion picture renditions of Miss Marple, you know ... See all 16 customer reviews (newest first) ... One minute Norman loved her and the next he hated her. it was not at all...
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Paradise Lost - Wikipedia  Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (16081674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the .... with the now-famous quote "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
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1899 Kingsley the Works of Charles Kingsley Vol 01 - Scribd  Ijt I THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES * Then came down from the altar Wilton of B...
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Article: Things We Were Not Meant to Know: H.P. Lovecraft and ...  Jun 18, 2001 ... Only one story of his, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," was published in book form in ... When he died, his own words "I am Providence" were recorded on the tombstone, ... A popular roleplaying game, The Call of Cthulhu, lets you play an ... while comic books such as Warren Ellis's Planetary show Lovecraft...
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Amazon.com: Constructive Destruction: Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary ...  Amazon.com: Constructive Destruction: Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation (Studien ... ISBN-10: 3111849740; ISBN-13: 978-3111849744; Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 0.8 inches; Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds.
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Franz Kafka's Last Wishes and the Kafka Myths - Concurring Opinions  Sep 2, 2008 ... ... papers is that Kafka asked his friend, Max Brod, to burn them after his death. ... I submit that the K papers and manuscripts should be destroyed, on the basis ... People who do not want to hand over letters to you should at least be made ... Hawkes contends, and I agree, that Kafka didn't mean a word of it.
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Orwell's Publishing Problems - Orwell Today  Now skip down the road to NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: ~ JJ. ". ... As former colonies have given way to corrupt oligarchies and dictatorships, and the ... SPYING FOR STALIN WAS BAD (but Whittaker Chambers was villified for ... National Post, Jul 4, 2003. ... OF GERMANY (book review of BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL, 1945).
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Archaeology and Prehistoric ...  You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project ... have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. ..... the first rude colonists of Europe, whose records are distorted and nearly effaced .... of the kindred sciences which bear on the study of antiquities more apparent...
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Book burning - Wikipedia  Book burning refers to the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. Usually .... To this day, his followers mourn "The Burned Book" and seek in their Rabbi's surviving .... The annihilation of the Bosnian National and University Library in August 1992 was led by Serbian nationalist Ratko Mladic. ..... By country.
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jeopardy/1597_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  FIRST NOVELS | This 19th century New Englander later tried to destroy all the copies of his anonymous first novel, "Fanshawe" | Nathaniel Hawthorne.