false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg 28228 7 The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country&#8217;s libraries&#8211;including the Library of Congress&#8211;have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. <br><br>With meticulous detective work and Baker&#8217;s well-known explanatory power, <b>Double Fold</b> reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive&#8211;all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, <b>Double Fold</b> is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be <i>The Jungle </i>of the American library system. 1992555 9 4 2002 Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper total:255|5:43|4:68|3:75|2:45|1:24| 255 826 422 49 28228 0375726217 9780375726217 234 44 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28228.Double_Fold_Libraries_and_the_Assault_on_Paper 3 3 false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 31 16:36:18 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 16:56:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 28228 0375726217 9780375726217 234 44 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28228.Double_Fold_Libraries_and_the_Assault_on_Paper 1 2 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Feb 21 06:55:50 -0800 2007 Wed Feb 21 11:02:27 -0800 2007 more...]]> 28228 0375726217 9780375726217 234 44 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28228.Double_Fold_Libraries_and_the_Assault_on_Paper 5 1 false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 24 14:52:21 -0800 2008 Thu May 28 09:07:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 28228 0375726217 9780375726217 234 44 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28228.Double_Fold_Libraries_and_the_Assault_on_Paper 4 0 false Tue Dec 02 06:32:35 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 06:56:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 28228 0375726217 9780375726217 234 44 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28228.Double_Fold_Libraries_and_the_Assault_on_Paper 3 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 13:18:01 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 13:19:45 -0800 2007 28228 0375726217 9780375726217 234 44 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28228.Double_Fold_Libraries_and_the_Assault_on_Paper 3 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 19:21:57 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 22 12:12:57 -0800 2007 Vandals in the Stacks by Richard Cox. ]]> 28228 0375726217 9780375726217 234 44 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28228.Double_Fold_Libraries_and_the_Assault_on_Paper 1 0 false Sat Feb 21 08:07:43 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 08:22:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 28228 0375726217 9780375726217 234 44 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937045m/28228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28228.Double_Fold_Libraries_and_the_Assault_on_Paper 4 0 false Sat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 11 18:05:16 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 28 07:42:21 -0800 2009
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