What's the late fee for a book that is a few thousand years ol years old? No, I'm not that old yet, but I do remember that pyramid and mummy at the science museum of MN. The old, middle, and new Kingdom. Will he or she come back to life some day and check out a book on Coptic bookbinding? Did they use Papyrus during the Coptic continuality? Papyrus lasts longer in dryer climates like Egypt. Here we have seasons, which are potentially harsh on books because of the change in humidity.
Sometimes books disappear and we don't know exactly why?
Obviously sometimes you need to collect books, and build libraries. Books don't last forever, but they are a media that can potentially be more stable than a computer. How long will the Internet last? It's difficult to say, and on a cold day sometimes it's nice just to turn on the computer and check out Wikipedia, Or just keep a chisel and carve a name in stone.
Write your own book! In your own language. It's the 21st Century.
Online or at the Science Museum? A bookstore or a library? Lots of options for the storage of media.
It's late for a dry snow this early Spring, and sometimes walking through it, I feel as of it's almost like sand, and the books are still waiting to be remembered.
Who was the King of Paranoia?
Have a nice day in the temperature.
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