“Andras Riedlmayer described a colleague who survived the siege of Sarajevo. In the winter, the scholar and his wife ran out of… — Matthew Battles Book Copy Share Image
“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function,… — Matthew Battles Books Copy Share Image
“The bibliographer in the digital age returns to the revelatory practice of her medieval forebears. Librarians, like those scribes of the Middle… — Matthew Battles Digital age Copy Share Image
“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or… — Matthew Battles Books Copy Share Image
“The middle ages did not care much for alphabetical order, because they were committed to rational order. To the medieval mind, the… — Matthew Battles Middle ages Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and… — Matthew Battles Books Copy Share Image
“Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves… — Matthew Battles Books Copy Share Image
