This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
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Add this copy of The Enemies of Books to cart. $44.29, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by BiblioBazaar.
Prior to reading this book I had not considered the impact of the environment in which books were kept. Growing up in the 20th century I had always taken for granted stable internal home temperatures regardless of the outside weather, protection against insects, and other dangers that the 19th century had not developed defenses we take for granted today. The book is worth reading solely from the perspective of understanding how fragile the repositories of our knowledge have been over the past thousands of years, and the unknown dangers, so called unknown unknowns that the digitization of books book might create.
