So Many Books, So Little Time

“The book is a portable collection of written ideas, designed to elevate the human mind beyond its natural limits of experience, memory, distance, and time; it's a vessel for numbers, narratives, laws, and lyrics; It facilitates history, politics, philosophy, religion, science, in self-discovery; It enshrines traditions while providing direction as they shift and grow; It informs the ignorant, reminds the learned, travels far, and cheats death.” – The Idea Machine

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