Friday, 15 April 2016

Books outlive us



MANY of the books in Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock outdo us humans. Some are a hundred years old and more, but are still at work, leaving the shelves and going into borrowers’ homes like young book do. Admittedly, they have had cosmetic surgery and been rebound. Some of  the  re-bindings have  that delightfully old-fashioned and hard-as-nails green or dark red covers. They’ll outlive me.

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