To earn a place here, a volume had to endure for generations. It had to be written of a certain quality and it also had to physically last: not to be a text file or a piece of digital ephemera, but to be a physical object, ink printed on paper bound between boards and secured by a spine. It must be stitched well and kept dry. Few of the volumes were what anyone would call fine editions, but they had been constructed in an age when books and other things were made with craftsmanship. The titles dealt in themes greater than any given moment: not fads or trends but matters as old as humanity
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