Double Fold by Nicholson Baker (2002, Paperback, Reprint) 
Double Fold by Nicholson Baker (2002, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Double Fold by Nicholson Baker (2002, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2002-04-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375726217
ISBN-13: 9780375726217
Product ID: EPID1952536
Description: Novelist Nicholson Baker attacks the archiving practices of libraries. His witty, passionate, persuasive, and highly informed polemic argues that the urgency with which librarians convert newspapers and brittle books into microfilm, and ...
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Synopsis
Novelist Nicholson Baker attacks the archiving practices of libraries. His witty, passionate, persuasive, and highly informed polemic argues that the urgency with which librarians convert newspapers and brittle books into microfilm, and dispose of original textual works, stinks of specious cost-cutting agendas--and results in the loss of valuable archival information. (And who knew there was a microfilm lobby in Washington?) A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

Details
Publication Date:2002-04-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:370 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.8 oz

Publisher's Note
In an exposT of contemporary library policies, the best-selling author of Vox describes how such institutions have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies and calling for the preservation of irreplaceable records.

Industry Reviews
"[Baker's] strength lies in literature, particularly in his ability as a novelist to summon up emotion by descriptive passages of minute, marvelously fashioned detail. If read for its literary qualities, his book succeeds even better than it does as reportage. It belongs, as mentioned, to a peculiar genre, the American jeremiad."
New York Review of Books - Robert Darnton (04/26/2001)

"If there is justice in the world of letters, his pleas will be heard and, God willing, he will never feel obliged to write a book so teeth-grindingly, one-noted again."
Voice Literary Supplement - Julian Dibbell (04/20/2001)

"Baker's research is impressive, and he uses his novelistic skills to flesh out his real-life characters, both heroes....and villains...."
Entertainment Weekly (04/20/2001)

"Despite the more alarmist passages in this book, despite its often meandering and repetitive structure, Mr. Baker's core arguments possess a bedrock common sense....Whether the reader agrees with all of Mr. Baker's arguments, his provocative book addresses an important and all too frequently overlooked subject: the future of our libraries in the digital age and the fate of the printed word."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (04/10/2001)

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