The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)

by Genevieve Cogman

Scientific discoveries are the same across the alternates, and while they are no doubt important, we don’t value them as we do creative work. There may be a hundred brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in a hundred different worlds, and each time they may have written a different set of fairy tales. That’s where our interest lies.” Vale blinked. “But in that case, you could

“We want books. We love books. We live with books. Someone who joined the Library just so that they could try to use the Library to benefit their own world . . . well, I suppose it would be ethical, but it isn’t the purpose of the Library.” “Then what is the purpose of the Library?” Vale asked. “To save books,” Irene said firmly.