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The period of the paper book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the marketplace, books are available to learn on cell phones, and companies such as Yahoo, Amazon, and Apple are contending to command line near monopolistic positions as vendors and dispensers of digital information. Already, more catalogs have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great catalogue in Alexandria. May be the printed reserve resilient enough to make it through the digital trend, or will it become obsolete? In this lasting collection of essays, Robert Darnton—an intellectual pioneer in the field of this record of the reserve—lends unique specialist to the life span, role, and legacy of the reserve in population.
