The library of discarded books

By Jack Waterford
Updated January 16 2018 - 11:17pm, first published May 5 2013 - 3:00am

The library of lost books would be of considerable size, bigger, probably than the shelves in my house could bear. But not by much. Its successor, 200 years from now, will be many times greater.

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