Category: books

  • On Censorship

    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”  Joseph Brodsky Censorship seeks to maintain social control by depriving people of information that challenges the status quo. Brodsky would know, having first been committed to a mental hospital then sent to a work camp before the Soviet Union expelled him…

  • Why use print in a digital world?

    Because we have the ability to navigate paper resources wordlessly. We engage with them sensorily, using touch and even smell to sort and track them. By connecting with books in this way, we can rapidly reference multiple works. The brain makes geospatial connections with the printed volume regarding progress and the location of memorable passages…