The Final Chapter in the Life of the Book 2:

Anonymous Patron writes “See this LISNews posting to which this is in effect a followup blog posting:

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Google and the Libraries
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article in The Sunday Times about Google’s digitisation of the world’s libraries. Some — Google included — seemed to think I said this was about to destroy civilisation. This does not fill me with hope about the ability of these people — Google included — to read. Anyway, I have been too busy to reply to all the emailed responses so I have decided to include them as comments on this post with, in fairness, a degree of anonymity. They demonstrate, if nothing else, the strength of feelings involved.”