Old Fashioned sends us this essay from the Guardian (UK) from some person who yearns for the libraries=books model of yore.
“Vast tracts of my waking life, calculation insists, have been passed in libraries. First there were those adolescent evenings spent in the branch library eyeing up the salacious jackets of old Dennis Wheatley novels. Next came school and university, fighting for the last copy of books with unappetising titles like Revolt and Reform: Europe in the Sixteenth Century. And then there was a whole catalogue of London establishments – odd little crannies tucked into backstreets.”
The rest…here.
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