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The Decline of the Book & the Fall of Western Civilization

By Martin Cothran|2022-05-22T17:21:27-05:00May 22nd, 2022|Categories: Books, Encyclopedia Britannica, Timeless Essays|Tags: Martin Cothran|

Soon the shelves will be gone, the books sold, leaving only the people, staring mesmerized at their screens. They won’t even notice that the books have been taken away. After libraries have all closed down or become free computer centers, there will still be people like me, feeling like monks in monasteries preserving books in [...]

The Decline of the Book and the Fall of Western Civilization: Books vs Kindle

There was the Great Flood. There were the Ten Plagues of Egypt. There was the Fall of Rome. There was the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem and the Fall of Constantinople. And now this: The Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of print. While the Simpsons just celebrated its 500th show, the world’s greatest learned [...]